ENGL 250

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

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:

Cultural Studies - Western

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 250 class schedule data for fall 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	47505	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -3:15PM	MW	English Building	Murison, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: The first century of the American novel gave us some of the most iconic images in American culture—the scarlet letter, the white whale—and some of the most gorgeous prose. This course offers you the time and space to read the best fiction of the nineteenth century. We will begin our reading in the late eighteenth century, when American authors first began crafting their novels as self-consciously “American,” before turning to the major American novels of the mid- to late nineteenth-century. We will read these novels with attention to both the formal experiments of their authors and the social and political issues they explicitly engaged. In doing so, we will develop a keener understanding of the history of the novel in the United States and appreciate the profound impact these writers had on American culture and readers, both then and now. Novelists will include (among several others) Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.