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2024 Fall

AMERICAN LITERATURE - LIT224 Fall 2024


Course
Michael Pitts
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Original Sin: the Foundations of U.S. Literature

2. Looking Backwards / Looking Forwards: Irving and Hawthorne

3. Transcendence and Descent: Dickinson and Poe

4. Society and Disobedience: Melville and Thoreau

5. Surrounding the Civil War: Douglass and Whitman

6. The Turn of the Century

7. A Poetic Revolution

8. Midterm Exam

9. Early 20th Century Modernist Fiction

10. Postwar Modernism

11. Radical Turns

12. Diverse Voices and Genres

13. Diverse Voices and Genres

14. Final Exam

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