NY Blue Collar: Worker in City Fiction: Civil War-Depression

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This course examines issues by studying literary texts, both classic and popular, and important historical documents on what would now be called the blue-collar experience. It places the working-class heroes and villains of post-bellum American literature in the context of a culture struggling with compassion for and fear of manual workers and slum dwellers, immigrants, and agitators, the other half, in sum.Restriction/Requirement:Fulfills 3 credits of Literature