ENG 579 Literatures of the Early Atlantic World

Critical analysis of Anglophone literatures of the early Atlantic world, with special emphasis on its characteristic narrative genres: captivity narrative, slave narrative, spiritual autobiography, and the sentimental novel. Readings in criticism and theory will consider the advantages and limitations of critical frameworks that move us beyond national imaginaries and frameworks such as the black Atlantic, the bourgeois public sphere, and transatlantic cultures of sentiment. Writers studied may include Rowlandson, Donne, Behn, Rowson, Franklin, Wheatley, Defoe, Smith, Equiano, Marrant, Brockden Brown, Tyler, Foster, Sansay. (3 credits)

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