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English 158A - Spring, 2016
The American Novel to 1900
Class Information
Instructor:
Wallis, Bryan
CRN:
42607
Time:
TR 12:10-1:30
Location:
118 Olson
Description
This course will survey 18th and 19th century American novels. 18th century topics will include the captivity narrative with Catherine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie and the early American gothic with Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland. We will also focus on 19th century naturalism and utopianism with works such as Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000-1887.
Texts
Wieland
, Charles Brockden Brown
Hope Leslie, Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
, Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Charlotte Temple
, Susanna Rowson
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
, Edward Bellamy
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
, Stephen Crane
Typee
, Herman Melville
The Gilded Age
, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
McTeague
, Frank Norris
