ENGL 367 - 19th-Century American Novel

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. A reading of major American novelists, focusing especially on Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. We also consider the relationship between the novel and punishment, especially in the works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Lippard, and William Wells Brown. Additionally, we read fictions during the second half of the century by Twain, Chopin, and Chesnutt. Staff.