Special Studies: Nineteenth Century American Literature

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The course will offer a survey of major American novels and short fiction from the nineteenth century, with particular attention to literary constructions of masculinity and femininity. Possible texts include Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper [1826], Hope Leslie, Catherine Maria Sedgwick [1827], Moby Dick, Herman Melville [1851], Uncle Tom?s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe [1851-2], The Story of Avis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps [1877], Daisy Miller, Henry James [1878], Huck Finn, Mark Twain [1885], and Iola Leroy, Francis Harper [1893], along with assorted short fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin, Jack London, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others.