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English 158A - Summer Sessions II, 2016
The American Novel to 1900
Class Information
Instructor:
Wallis, Bryan
CRN:
71441
Time:
MTW 10:00-11:40
Location:
113 Hoagland
Description
This course will survey American novels to 1900, with emphases on sentimentalism, the gothic, the captivity narrative, utopianism, and naturalism.
Texts
Typee
, Herman Melville
Wieland
, Charles Brockden Brown
Hope Leslie
, Catherine Maria Sedgwick
The Scarlet Letter
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
McTeague
, Frank Norris
Looking Backward 2000-1887
, Edward Bellamy