EN 142 American Literary History II (Spring: 3)
Fulfills pre-1900 requirement.
The seventy-five years following the American Civil War defined the era
when transformative changes in U.S. culture—the demise of the slave
system and the rise of segregation; the emergence of corporate society and
successive waves of immigration; new experimentation in the arts; new roles
for women and new ideas imagined for reordering society—transformed
the face of American writing. Through interdisciplinary lectures on historical
and biographical background, and close discussions on authors like Mark
Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sui Sin Far and others,
this course provides an introduction to the emergence of modern American
writing.
James M. Smith
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