EN231, American Literature Through Twain
Dr. Michael O'Conner
Millikin University, Decatur, IL

Unit Introductions and Overviews

Unit 1 Overview Native Peoples, Native Influences

Unit 2 Overview Explorers, Invaders, and Colonists

Unit 3 Overview Pilgrims, Puritans, and Opponents

Unit 4 Overview Nationalism and Awakenings in the Age of Enlightenment

Unit 5 Overview Transcendental Theory and Practice, An American Romanticism

Unit 6 Overview The New Nation and Its Literature

Unit 7 Overview American Gothic, A Dark Romanticism

Unit 8 Overview A Tale of Two Poes

Unit 9 Overview Haunted Hawthorne

Unit 10 Overview Fish Stories and Lawyers, the Mind of Melville

Unit 11 Overview I'm nobody! Who are you?

Unit 12 Overview Look for me under your boot-soles

Unit 13 Overview Slavery in America

Unit 14 Overview Yours Truly, Huck Finn

 

Dr.Michael O'Conner, Millikin University