Studenti će se upoznati sa spefičnim književno-povijesnim razdobljem američke književnosti. U kolegiju će čitati i analizirati reprezentativne tekstove američkoga romantizma te će svoje spoznaje sintetizirati u usmenome i pisanome obliku.

1. Week 1: Introduction: key concepts; lit-historical context
2. Week 2: Emerson: selected essays („The American Scholar“, „Self-Reliance“)
3. Week 3: Emerson: „The Poet“; Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (selection)
4. Week 4: Thoreau: Walden (selected chapters)
5. Week 5: Thoreau: Walden (selected chapters)
6. Week 6: Thoreau: „Civil Disobedience“, „A Plea for Captain John Brown“ (essays)
7. Week 7: Fuller: „Autobiographical romance“, „Self-definitions“ (excerpts)
8. Week 8: Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth-Century
9. Week 9: Fuller: Woman. *Mid-term.*
10. Week 10: Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
11. Week 11: Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
12. Week 12: Douglass: The Narrative
13. Week 13: Douglass: cont.
14. Week 14: Melville: Typee
15. Week 15: Evaluation. *Final test.*

1. Student će moći prepoznati i identificirati obilježja književnosti američkoga romantizma.
2. Student će moći identificirati i analizirati ključna književna djela američkoga romantizma.
3. Student će moći smjestiti i povezati književno-kulturološka obilježja navedenoga razdoblja u kotekstu kronologije američke književnosti i usporedno s europskim književnostima.
4. Student će moći stečene spoznaje samostalno primijeniti, uobiličiti i komunicirati u usmenom i pismenom obliku.

1. Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad, Madison: The U of Wisconsin P, 1978. (selection)
2. Pease, Donald. Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context, Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1987. (selection)
3. Pease, Donald, ed. National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives, Durham: Duke UP, 1994. (selection)
4. Rowe, John Carlos. At Emerson’s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. (selection)
5. Warren, Joyce, ed. The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 1993. (selection)

1. Anglistika, sveučilišni preddiplomski dvopredmetni studij, 3., 5. semestar