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Spring 2013ENGL 679.1M6:00 - 8:40RH302 Deborah DeRosa

Title: 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL (3)

Course Description: Studies in the American novel, including the romance, woman’s fiction, realism, and naturalism, and such writers as Sedgwick, Cooper, Hawthorne, Stoddard, James, Twain, Phelps, Norris, and Wharton.

PRQ:

Detailed Course Description:

This course will explore the American novel from its origins to the late nineteenth century. What topics did authors like Hawthorne, James, Wilson, Twain, Chopin, Alcott, Stowe and others write about that deserve to be called "weak and washy literature" that leads to "the great vices of our age"? Class time will vary between lecture, class discussion, and student-led discussion.

Course Requirements:

Students will give one presentation, as well as write several short papers, five informal article summaries, a conference paper (with abstract and cover letter), an annotated bibliography, and a publishable article.

Required Texts:

Required (fiction):

Chopin, The Awakening (Norton edition)

Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition

Child, Hobomok

Crane, Maggie a Girl of the Streets (Norton edition)

Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (Norton edition)

James, The Turn of the Screw (Norton edition)

Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Norton edition)

Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson (Norton edition)

Wilson, Our Nig

 

Recommended (fiction):

Brown, Wieland

Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Melville, Benito Cereno & Moby Dick

Norris, McTeague

Jewett, Country of the Pointed Firs

Stoddard, The Morgensons

Twain, Adventures of Huck. Finn

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