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[Spring 2006]
ENGL G4603 The American Novel
1850-1950
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Prof.
Jonathan Arac
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COURSE PLAN
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| January 18: |
Introductory |
| January 25: |
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851);
read at least through ch 60 |
| February 1: |
Moby-Dick |
| February 8: |
"Mark Twain," Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn (1884) |
| February 15: |
William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New
Fortunes (1890) |
| February 22: |
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
(1900) |
| March 1: |
Henry James, The Ambassadors (1903)
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| March 8: |
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)
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| March 15: |
SPRING BREAK |
| March 22: |
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
(1925) |
| March 29: |
Henry Roth, Call It Sleep (1934)
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| April 5: |
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
(1936) |
| April 12: |
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
(1946) |
| April 19: |
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
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| April 26: |
Invisible Man and conclusion |
Format: I will lecture, with a ten minute break
at 7:00; I hope that some conversation will be possible.
Undergraduates will be enrolled in separate 50-minute
discussion sections led by Alicia Desantis.
Requirements: For graduate students, weekly
writing (2-3 double-spaced pages) focused on a critical
issue that engages you in the assigned reading. Please
keep the work in a portfolio to submit at term's end
for grading. Graduate writing will be reviewed at intervals
through the term. Alicia Desantis will set undergraduate
writing requirements.
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