Scenes of Revision (ENG-0141)
Spring 2027 · ENG 0141 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate
Examination of revision in African American literature within the contexts of enslavement, surveillance, material scarcity, and racial violence during slavery and Reconstruction. Analysis of texts revised, sometimes repeatedly, by authors including Phillis Wheatley, John Marrant, William Wells Brown, Hannah Bond, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Attention to the material effects of revision and questions of authorship, agency, print culture, and archival recovery. Fulfills the pre-1860 English major requirement.
Course codes: ENG-0141, ENG 0141, ENG0141, ENG-141, ENG 141, ENG141
- 01-LEC (Lecture) — Sarah Anne Robbins