American Literature II

Catalog description

A survey of American literature from the American Civil War to the present, this course explores canonical and marginalized voices from a range of literary perspectives, including realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. While exploring these perspectives, the course encourages students to study the role of literature plays in both expressing and influencing the cultural realities of America, such as those realities shaped by urbanization, industrialism, the First and Second World Wars, and the development of new media. Overall, the aim is to help students experience literature as a tool of inquiry and not only as an observation of lived experience. Prerequisite(s): EH 105 or EH 124.