Basic knowledge of American Culture and Literature from Puritanism to Transcendentalism, through the analysis of the main literary products of the period.
United States' Literature and Culture from Puritanism to Transcendentalism
Columbia Literary History of the United States, ed. by Emory
Elliott
Gray, History of American Literature
Norton Anthology of American Literature, voll. C,D,E.
A reading list will be provided during the course