ENGL 3820 - Realism and Naturalism

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher.
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.