To analyze American literature between 15th (colonial period after the exploration of the continent) and mid 19th centuries, to focus on colonial period, period of independence, age of enlightenment, and romantic period respectively, and to analyze the individual writers/poets/thinkers of their own periods and their works, opinions, the relevant trends, social and historical events of those periods. By doing so, the students are supposed to realize how the texts can be used in teaching English.

Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Colonial Period, modernism and contemporary literary term