ENGL 450

Fall 2016

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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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40395
Lecture-Discussion
1G
10:00AM -10:50AM
MWF
131 English Building
Jones, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/16-12/07/16
Credit:
4 hours
Section Info:
The United States we live in today was born in the tumultuous period between 1865 and 1914, as the country coped with the aftermath of Civil War, the violent failures of Reconstruction, new forays into overseas imperialism, rapid industrialization, roiling labor disputes, a massive influx of immigrants, and the integration of newly emancipated and enfranchised African Americans into society. The explosion of railroad networks and the invention of the automobile transformed the American landscape, while new technologies like photography, telegraph, and film seemed to change space and time themselves. The United States of 1865-1914 will appear wildly strange and eerily familiar to students: it was a world fraught with economic inequalities, widespread corruption, scientific discoveries that threatened to upend the social order, and racial tensions that still resonate in the contemporary world of Black Lives Matters. We will encounter the foreign land of the past through its literature, reading works by authors including: Charles Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Edward Bellamy. We will read across genres and across movements in literary history (including realism, naturalism, and modernism), and will learn how to read texts through a variety of theoretical frameworks. In addition to reading literature, we will encounter paintings, short films, photographs, and musical works, which will help us understand how art channeled the massive social forces remaking the world. Students can expect to write two essays and two exams.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
39493
Lecture-Discussion
1U
10:00AM -10:50AM
MWF
131 English Building
Jones, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/16-12/07/16
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
The United States we live in today was born in the tumultuous period between 1865 and 1914, as the country coped with the aftermath of Civil War, the violent failures of Reconstruction, new forays into overseas imperialism, rapid industrialization, roiling labor disputes, a massive influx of immigrants, and the integration of newly emancipated and enfranchised African Americans into society. The explosion of railroad networks and the invention of the automobile transformed the American landscape, while new technologies like photography, telegraph, and film seemed to change space and time themselves. The United States of 1865-1914 will appear wildly strange and eerily familiar to students: it was a world fraught with economic inequalities, widespread corruption, scientific discoveries that threatened to upend the social order, and racial tensions that still resonate in the contemporary world of Black Lives Matters. We will encounter the foreign land of the past through its literature, reading works by authors including: Charles Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Edward Bellamy. We will read across genres and across movements in literary history (including realism, naturalism, and modernism), and will learn how to read texts through a variety of theoretical frameworks. In addition to reading literature, we will encounter paintings, short films, photographs, and musical works, which will help us understand how art channeled the massive social forces remaking the world. Students can expect to write two essays and two exams.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
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