ENGL 250

Fall 2014 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

The American Novel to 1914

Credit: 3 hours.

Critical study of selected American novels from the late eighteenth century to 1914.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - Western

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ENGL 250 class schedule data for fall 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	47505	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	English Building	Jones, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: What is ?novel? about the ?American novel,? and when does it become ?American?? This course aims to introduce students to the various forms the American novel has taken during its first century of existence. Beginning in the early national period, when American authors first began crafting their novels as self-consciously ?American,? we will consider some of the important and canonical novels of the pre-World War I era along with several forgotten and noncanonical ones in order to understand how the genre of the novel relates to the nation and how theories of nationalism often determine which novels come to stand for the American literary tradition. Texts may include Charles Brockden Brown?s Wieland, Nathaniel Hawthorne?s The House of the Seven Gables, Harriet Beecher Stowe?s Uncle Tom?s Cabin, Mark Twain?s Pudd?nhead Wilson, Henry James?s Washington Square, and Charles Chesnutt?s Marrow of Tradition. Course requirements: periodic response papers, two essays of varying lengths, a midterm, a final, and active class participation.