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English 144 - Fall, 2022
Post Civil War American Literature
Class Information
Instructor:
Badley, Chip
CRN:
32099
Time:
TR 10:30-11:50
Location:
146 Olson
GE Areas:
American Cultures, Governance, and History
Writing Experience
Description
This course will introduce students to American literature published between 1865 and 1914, a period characterized by a postbellum "Reconstruction" (typically dated 1865-77) as well as upheavals in social, cultural, and political identity. We will study texts that both reflected and shaped the latter half of the nineteenth century: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The Gates Ajar (1868); Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885); Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods (1902); Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899); Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (1911); Yone Noguchi's The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (1901); and Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1914). In addition to these full-length works, short fiction and essays will include Charles Chesnutt, W. E. B. DuBois, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Henry James, Emma Lazarus, Jos? Mart?, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Zitk?la-??. Topics to include, but are not limited to: the Civil War; domestic sentimentalism; Reconstruction; abolition and emancipation; Jim Crow segregation laws; regionalism and local color writing; the Gilded Age; urbanization; industrialization; capitalism; Realism and journalism; the "New Woman"; the rise of divorce; immigration and the "melting pot"; Manifest Destiny and settler colonialism; emerging mass and popular cultures; and Modernism.
Texts
The Gates Ajar
, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
, Mark Twain
The Sport of the Gods
, Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Aspern Papers
, Henry James
The Awakening
, Kate Chopin
Ethan Frome
, Edith Wharton
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
, Yone Noguchi
Tender Buttons
, Gertrude Stein