Inventing an American Literature

Frank Gado

Mondays, 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
September 27 - November 1, 2004
D.O.C. House

Producing a distinctively American literature was very much a concern from the end of the Revolution to the 1820’s. We will look at some expressions of “America” in various genres. Among works covered will be tales of Washington Irving, poetry by William Cullen Bryant, and two novels — one by James K. Paulding, another by James F. Cooper.

Class is limited to 20 members.

Frank Gado holds an AB in Philosophy/Comp. Literature from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in American Literature from Duke University. He was a thirty-three-year faculty member at Union College (Schenectady, NY) and twice a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Uppsala (Sweden). He is the author of The Passion of Ingmar Bergman, First Person, The Teller’s Tales (ed.), and The Lion of the West and the Buckskins (ed.)