American Literature (EMEN22) - I Year
ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-2024 (EVEN) I B.A English – Semester II Core IV – American Literature (EMEN22) Syllabus Unit I Background: The First Frontier (Settlement of America) – The Puritans and the spread of Puritanism in America Romanticism: Optimist and Pessimist – The Flowering of New England – The Transcendentalists – Writers of the South – Indian thought in Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman – Sacred Writings of the East. Unit II Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain! Robert Frost - Birches Edgar Allan Poe - ...