2011-2012 Academic Catalog 
    
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2011-2012 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 181 - Major American Writers II

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion
The sequence ENG   -ENG 181  takes an historical approach to American literature from Puritanism to the present. This course traces the evolution of American literature and its major aesthetic movements from circa 1860 to the present. Writers and poets include Melville, Twain, Crane, Wharton, James, Williams, Eliot, Hughes, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Pynchon, and Morrison. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course partially satisfies the Historical Sequences (A) requirement.

Prerequisites: Verbal-expression (VE) course