EN 836 Media, Culture, Narrative (Spring: 3)

This course proposes to provide a seedbed of common readings and questions for graduate students interested in U.S. literary and cultural history from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. Our readings will also concentrate on recent scholarship on the material and cultural placements of various media forms--news writings, self-help manuals, ethnic autobiography, popular entertainments, speeches, pulp magazines, and so forth, adjacent to (and often constituting) mainstream "literary" expression.
Christopher Wilson

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