This course focuses on connecting the diverse western movements such as Realism, Naturalism, Romanticism, Transcendentalism Modernism, etc as they influence multiple trends in American literary heritage and nationalism. The course will highlight these emerging trends as they culminate into the opening of democratic vistas along with repercussions of industrial and scientific expansion. Race-gender-class equations reinterpret the central meaning of America and of the changing social and economic values. Basically there may be several ways to access,but whether we follow simple chronology or connect through themes and generes, the final objective of this course is to look for the sense of democratic diversity amid the constitutional unity of the US.

This course surveys the origins of American literary movements with reference to the representative writers chosen. It sets some direction to the study of specific trends in the American Novel. AL-I stresses the diversity and uniqueness of the American character holiness along with the revolutionary expansions of the so called patriots. It also highlights various phases of the American Renaissance, Romantic awareness and Transcendentalism, the Civil War and scientific progress, dreams of American success, and several voices of social protest.