{"id":540,"date":"2018-01-22T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/americanlit1\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=540"},"modified":"2018-01-22T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T21:48:07","slug":"about-this-course","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/howardcollege-americanlit1\/chapter\/about-this-course\/","title":{"raw":"About This Course","rendered":"About This Course"},"content":{"raw":"<p align=\"left\">American Literature I (1650\u20131860) examines significant literary works of early American and Puritan literature, the Enlightenment, American Romanticism, and pre-Civil War era. 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