ENGL 226 - American Literature, 1865-1925

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as GNCS 226) This course provides exposure to the diverse group of authors who wrote during the 1865-1925 period and who belong to no school. True, some were realists, naturalists, and modernists, but these terms and even general themes, such as ‘individualism’, do not apply to all. The one term that defines the period is ‘difference’ (read variously as contention, invidious comparison, change, diversity, gender dissidence). This course simulates the great rupture between nineteenth-century prose styles and those of the twentieth century, but you will be mindful of the earlier radical streak in American fiction, if I have anything to say about it! Likely authors: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Du Bois, Hurston, Toomer, T.S. Eliot. Wendy Graham.

This course satisfies the REGS or the pre-1900 requirement for the English major.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS