ENGL 3915 - Literature of the Early South

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a grade of C or higher.
Description
This course explores literature of the early south, from early colonial settlement through the end of the eighteenth century. We will examine early conceptions of the region’s economic and cultural development by interrogating the consequences of the transatlantic slave trade, the dispossession of indigenous lands, and the emergence of the South as a distinct region within the newly formed United States. Selected authors may include Thomas Harriot, John Smith, Richard Ligon, Aphra Behn, Ebenezer Cooke, John Marrant, Olaudah Equiano, William Bartram, and Thomas Jefferson.