ENG348L - American Modernism

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
A study of American literature in the first half of the 20th century, emphasizing contributions of American writers to Modernism. Readings drawn from a variety of genres will illustrate the richness and diversity of the era, which was characterized above all by rapid social change. The cultural impact of significant political events and social or artistic movements will be examined, e.g., two world wars, the Great Depression, the Jazz Age, the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, the Armory Show, expatriotism. Writers to be studied may include some of the following: Dreiser, Wharton, Lewis, Anderson, Hemingway, Stein, Sandburg, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hughes, Hurston, Cather, Eliot, Williams, O’Neill, Pound, Millay, Stevens, H.D., Porter, Larsen and Ellison.