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ENGL 3820 - Realism and Naturalism


3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: ENGL 1102  and either ENGL 2120  or ENGL 2130  with a C or higher.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
Selected works by American writers of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Possible topics include the social function of realist fiction, depictions of race and gender, and emergence of regional literatures. Emphasis on writers such as Chesnutt, Twain, James, Wharton, Crane, Dreiser, Chopin, Dunbar, and Johnson.