ASRC 3440

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ASRC 3440
Merchants, Whalers, Pirates, Sailors: Early American Sea-Faring Literature

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course will look at how literature based at sea helps both shape and challenge concepts of freedom and capital. By looking at the relationship between the sea-faring economy and its relationship to American Expansion and the history of enslavement we will explore how literature based at sea provided both a reflection and an alternate reality to land-based politics. While the main focus of the course will be nineteenth-century literature, we will also be exploring maritime literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and its analogues in speculative fiction.


Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2022SP

Distribution Category (ALC-AS) (CA-AG, LA-AG)

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3442, ENGL 3440

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18839 ASRC 3440   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Warren, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person