Course details

Name: ENGL - 557

Title: AMERICAN REALISM

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2021

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will cover American literature from the 1860s through the very early part of the twentieth century, the period know as literary Realism (with its offshoot Naturalism). Authors we will read include Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, Charles Chesnutt, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, among others. We will discuss influences on these writers, such as the Civil War and Reconstruction, immigration, urban poverty, robber barons, an expanding capitalist economy, emerging women's rights, and thinkers such as Marx, Darwin, Freud.

Last updated on 2021-04-16 By Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Schedule: Monday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Post-1900 (1d)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)
• Graduate (BA/MA)

Teaching Faculty: Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Is course canceled: No