HISTORY OF AMERICAN ...

Section I: Colonial Beginnings & the Birth of a National Literature in America

Lecture 01: Native American Traditions
Lecture 02: Colonial Echoes: Exploration, Travel Writing & Faith

Lecture 03: National Echoes: the Literature of Revolution and Reason
Lecture 04: The Literature of the National Character   

Tutorial for Section I

Section II:  The 19th-Century Incongruities of American Literature 

Lecture 01: Transcendental Voices VS. The Dark Shades of Romanticism & Naturalism
Lecture 02: Slave Narratives & the sunbeam of the Civil War