ENGL 450
Spring 2026 All Classes
Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.
After the Civil War the United States entered a period of accelerating modernization and change. This course addresses how the nation's writers helped build modern America in response to a host of exciting and daunting developments in economics, science, and politics, including the enfranchisement of African Americans, Jim Crow segregation laws, growing income inequality, the rise of unions and anarchist movements, the invention of the automobile and the department store, new sciences such as including Darwinism and psychoanalysis, and American empire-building in places like Hawai'i and the Philippines. Writers studied might include Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Zitkala-Sa, Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, and Edith Wharton.
3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.
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39267
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Lecture-Discussion
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1G
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12:00PM
-12:50PM
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MWF
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119 English Building
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Newcomb, J
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39266
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Lecture-Discussion
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1U
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12:00PM
-12:50PM
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MWF
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119 English Building
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Newcomb, J
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