The American Literature module is designed to introduce students to a variety of American authors and American themes. Students will explore various American authors, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, Shirley Jackson, Fannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. [10 classes]
Instructor: Alida Mayne-Nicholls