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