ALIT 245 - Literature of the American Civil War 3 s.h.

This course will introduce a number of writers who experienced the Civil War. Some were well known before the war began: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln. Some became significant because of the war: Mary Chestnut, Generals Sherman and Grant, and Ambrose Bierce. Readings will also look at certain historical events in order to understand how the war touched so many kinds of writers: women, African Americans, poets, novelists, politicians, and soldiers from the North and South. Offered every 2-3 years.
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Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; LITR 100 or LITR 150 .