The examination emphasizes fiction & poetry and deals to a lesser degree with the essay, drama, & autobiography.
Certificate: 3 Univ credit CLEP
Lesson content
College credit & Studying Resources
Lec 1 The Native Americans: A Civilization Interru...
Lec 2 Native American Oral Literature
Lec 3 Spain in America
Lec 4 France and England in America
Lec 5 The Puritan Vision of America
Lec 6 The Puritans: Conformists, Rebels and Tortured Souls
Lec 7 Puritan Literature: Poetry Private and Public
Lec 8 The Tangled Vision: Puritan Wonders, Magic and Witchcraft
Lec 9 The Literature of Cultural Conflict
Lec 10 Benjamin Franklin: The Self-Made American
Lec 11 The Age of Reason: Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine
Lec 12 Voices of the Revolution: Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine
Lec 13 The First American Bestsellers: Charlotte Temple and The Coquette
Lec 14 The Early American Romantics: Irving and Cooper
Lec 15 Edgar Allen Poe: Tales of Love and Beauty
Lec 16 Edgar Allen Poe: Tales of Mystery and Terror
Lec 17 Emerson and Transcendentalist Religion
Lec 18 Emersons Intellectual Declaration of Independence
Lec 19 Frederick Douglass: The Story of an Escaped Slave
Lec 20 Harriet Ann Jacobs: The Story of a Slave Girl
Lec 21 Nathaniel Hawthorne: Versions of Romance
Lec 22 Nathaniel Hawthorne: Return to Puritanism
Lec 23 The Scarlet Letter: Hawthornes Masterwork
Lec 24 Voices of Dissent: On Abolition and Womens Rights
Lec 25 Thoreaus Life at Walden Pond
Lec 26 Uncle Toms Cabin: An Abolitionist Bestseller
Lec 27 Native American Voices
Lec 28 Centuries of American Song
Lec 29 Walt Whitman's Song of the Soul
CLEP Exam Details
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