ENGL 450

Spring 2015

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American Lit 1865-1914
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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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39267
Lecture-Discussion
1G
1:00PM -2:50PM
W
149 Henry Administration Bldg
Carico, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/20/15-05/06/15
Credit:
4 hours
Section Info:
Between the end of the Civil War and the outbreak of World War I, the United States thoroughly transformed. The nation?s cities grew, as it became one of the world?s major economies, and American territory expanded, as its empire stretched west and south and overseas. The transcontinental railroad was completed, and the modern corporation developed. The phonograph was invented, and the motion picture was born. At the same time, immigrants were starving in urban tenements, blacks were suffering Jim Crow laws and lynch mobs, and women were struggling to escape the confinements of patriarchy. This semester, as we read the essays and poems and novels of this period, we will consider how American literature grappled with all these changes?from the social to the cultural, from the economic to the technological. We won?t be reading in a vacuum, though. We?ll view photographs and films beside the novels of realism and naturalism, for example, and we?ll listen to early sound recordings as we discuss the folk stories of the U.S. South. All the while, we?ll be thinking not only about how American literature mirrors and describes these many transformations but also, and more importantly, about how these historical processes transformed literature itself.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
39266
Lecture-Discussion
1U
1:00PM -2:50PM
W
149 Henry Administration Bldg
Carico, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/20/15-05/06/15
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Between the end of the Civil War and the outbreak of World War I, the United States thoroughly transformed. The nation?s cities grew, as it became one of the world?s major economies, and American territory expanded, as its empire stretched west and south and overseas. The transcontinental railroad was completed, and the modern corporation developed. The phonograph was invented, and the motion picture was born. At the same time, immigrants were starving in urban tenements, blacks were suffering Jim Crow laws and lynch mobs, and women were struggling to escape the confinements of patriarchy. This semester, as we read the essays and poems and novels of this period, we will consider how American literature grappled with all these changes?from the social to the cultural, from the economic to the technological. We won?t be reading in a vacuum, though. We?ll view photographs and films beside the novels of realism and naturalism, for example, and we?ll listen to early sound recordings as we discuss the folk stories of the U.S. South. All the while, we?ll be thinking not only about how American literature mirrors and describes these many transformations but also, and more importantly, about how these historical processes transformed literature itself.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
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