ENGL 222 - American Literature: Post Civil War to the Present

Institution:

Raritan Valley Community College

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Prerequisite: ENGL 111 - English I. American Literature: Post Civil War to the Present begins with the writers of the late 19th century and ends with contemporary literature. Writers may include Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, W.E.B. DuBois, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Arthur Miller, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Raymond Carver, and Toni Morrison. Students study contemporary American issues as they read about social rebellion and social conformity, about the dilemmas that women have faced and those that men have experienced, about the struggles of African Americans against racism, and about changes over the last century in private relationships and the family.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.raritanval.edu

Phone Number:

(908) 526-1200

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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