ENG 522 - Topics in American Literature After 1870

This course encourages in-depth study of the literature and culture of the U.S. after 1870. ENG 522 employs a topical or thematic approach, focusing on a particular theme, writer, genre, and/or group of writers. Possible foci include American realism, the literature of the Gilded Age, literature of WWI and WWII, Asian American Literature, the emergence of Modernism and Postmodernism. ENG 522 may be repeated for credit with a different emphasis. (Offered every year.) 3 credits