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Advent Semester—2025
Jun 21, 2025 |
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| ENGL 379 - Origins and Development of the American Novel: 1790 to 1920 |
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“In the four quarters of the globe,” sneered the English critic Sidney Smith in 1820, “who reads an American book?” This course introduces the U.S. writers who answered Smith’s challenge, such as Hannah Webster Foster, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, Charles W. Chesnutt, Willa Cather, and Theodore Dreiser. They invented a distinctively American novel and in the process produced masterpieces that are still recognized in all four quarters of the globe.
4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Final Examination, Lecture/Seminar Humanities, Non-Languages Division English Department Course Attributes: American Studies |
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