ENGL 3390 - Survey of American Literature II

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Surveys the development of American Literary voices from the Civil War era experimentations of Davis, Crane and Dickinson, through development of American Modernism in poetry and prose (Williams, Eliot, Stevens, Anderson, Hemingway, Faulkner), concluding with the Native American Renaissance of the 1960s and 70s. Includes such writers as Twain, James, Wharton and/or Chopin with the attention to race-relations, immigration and the New Woman, as well as surveying the development of the African-American literary tradition through the writings of Washington, DuBois, Toomer, Wright, and/or Hurston.