AML 5017 Roberts Summer 2022

This course concentrates on some of the Big Beasts of American Literature, including Poe, Hawthorne and Melville. We’ll read deeply and slowly, looking at ways works such as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” The Scarlet Letter, and Moby-Dick continue to shape and shake writing today. Students may produce either a scholarly article on some aspect of 19th century American writing or a creative project which can be poetry, fiction, or nonfiction.