ENGL 250H

Major American Realists

The period between the end of the Civil War and the outbreak of World War I was a time of unprecedented and transforming change in American life. In response to these new conditions came "the rise of realism," which radically changed American ideas about the nature of fiction, the reality it represented, and its effects on readers. Students study theories of realism, their historical development and the current status of literary theories of realism as influenced by deconstruction and feminist literary theory. These theoretical positions are applied to a range of short fiction and novels.

Units: 3.0