American Literature, 1865-1945
ENGL 204
Spring 2011
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 156 |
| Course Cluster: Urban Studies |
Together we will explore not only the complexities of American literature from the 1860s to the 1940s but how this literature excels as a usable critical resource that can advance our understanding of how America has "ticked" as a culture, a socioeconomic system that established and sought to maintain class, gender, and racial difference, and a political power structure. In our ongoing analyses of the relationship of literary form and social form, we will trace connections between historical developments such as the gothic genre and gender ideologies, domestic romance and the social reproduction of labor, realism and mass-urbanism, naturalism and immigration, and modernism and imperialism. The creative works of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Chesnutt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, Nathanael West, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston will help equip us to be more imaginative readers of literature, ourselves, and America. This literature offers us expansive insights into what was at stake in America's production of "the modern." And while contemplating this, we will experience the pleasures of reading great writing. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Interpretation |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(ENGL)(ENGL-Literature) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
The following authors will be represented: Davis, Twain, James, Crane, Chesnutt, Gilman, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hughes, Hurston, O'Neill, West, and Wright.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Mid-semester quiz and essay, end of term quiz and essay. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This is a reading--and thinking--intensive course, and students will be expected to keep up with a demanding syllabus. Attendance at all TA discussion sections as well as at all lectures is required. |
| Instructor(s): Pfister,Joel Times: .M.W.F. 12:00PM-12:50PM; Location: PAC001; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 80 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 8 | | |
| Seats Available: 2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 18 | FR: 45 |
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