Old American Literature

The course provides a historical survey of the main schools, trends and literary works of American literature from its beginning until the end of the first colonial period with the focus on postcolonial theory.
The course is based on a systemic analysis of literary tropes and discourses typical of early American literature and its genres.
The course provides an in-depth analysis of the socio-political context, out of which early American literature arose and which it documents and mirrors. The course therefore also provides a critical analysis of the ways constructs of otherness and ideology of imperialism are contextualized and embedded in early American literature.

Bradbury, Malcolm., Richard Ruland. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992. Pp.: 456. COBISS.SI-ID – 34179841
Cunliffe, Marcus. The Literature of the United States. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. Pp.: 512. COBISS.SI-ID – 1792610
McClintock, Anne. Imperial leather: race, gender and sexuality in the colonial conquest. London in New York: Routledge, 1995. COBISS.SI-ID – 32067938
Elliott, J. H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830. Yale University Press, 2006. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xww&AN=18804…
Games, Alison. Witchcraft in Early North America. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth: UK ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC., 2010. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xww&AN=34194…
Goss, K. David. The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008.

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