ENG 5100 Studies in American Realism and Naturalism

A study of the literature of the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century (from the Civil War to World War I) typically takes into account issues of national identity and Americanization in an age of imperialist expansion. It might also include discussions of such topics as, industrialism and the diversity of writing from women, immigrants, and African Americans. This study of turn-of-the century writers may include the following: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Booker T. Washington, Charles Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sui Sin Far, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, James Weldon Johnson, and Upton Sinclair. The outline (themes and authors) will vary depending upon the instructor’s interests and expertise.
Credits: 3.0