Course details

Name: ENGL - 336

Title: AMERICAN LITERARY REALISM

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2010

Credits: 3

Description:
This will be a course in American fiction between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century. We will address the social constructions of American realism-- how literary texts both reflect and help shape cultural responses to the enormous social and economic changes of the period— trends in urbanization, industrialization, and immigration; the rise of modern information systems and mass culture; Gilded Age displays of conspicuous consumption among a capitalist leisure class; changing attitudes toward race, gender and class. The reading list has not yet been set, but it will be chosen from among writers like Twain, Howells, James, Dreiser, Crane, Norris, Wharton, Chesnutt, Johnson, Jewett, and Chopin. The final reading list will be posted on BlackBoard.

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

Graduation requirements:

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• Genre Study (Fiction)
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• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)

Teaching Faculty: Benediktsson T (benediktssont)

Is course canceled: No