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