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(ENGL 362) American Literature From Mid-Nineteenth Century to World War I

Representative writings from the literary movements of regionalism, local color, realism, and naturalism. Includes works by Twain, Chesnutt, Howells, James, Chopin, Wharton, Crane, Norris, and Dreiser.

Credit Hours 3.0 Lecture
Prerequisite ENGL 251
Offered Winter - even years
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Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Be exposed to a range of late 19th-and early 20th-century literary texts. American Literature From Mid-Nineteenth Century to World War I.
  2. Get a sense of the chronological significance of these texts in broader philosophical, political, and historical contexts that were circulating during the turn of the 20thcentury.
  3. Understand the limitations and the possibilities that language has as a symbolic system.