Fall 2007 Courses

English 371-01: 19th Century American Literature (Dawes)

W 7:00-10:00pm, Old Main 011

This course examines an array of American literature written in the second half of the nineteenth century, including poetry, autobiography, essays, stories and novels. It might focus on a particular moment in the late nineteenth century, a particular group of authors, or a particular thematic concern, but it will be concerned to trace out the complicated relation between literary representation and a rapidly changing social, economic, and political landscape. Authors might include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, William Dean Howells, Edith Warton, Henry James, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Fall 2007 Course Listings