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ENGL 231 - Major American Writers to 1865

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
Representative works by major American writers from the 17th century through the Civil War are studied. Included are such figures as Franklin, Wheatley, Poe, Emerson, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman. (CHUM; CWRT)