ENGLISH 239 - Popular Fiction:The Fifties

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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This course addresses popular fiction, popular culture, and popular memory of post-World War II America. In popular memory, The Fifties are often cast either as the "golden age" of nuclear families, domestic bliss and affluence, or as the "dark ages" of sexual and political repression, conformity and hyper-consumerism before the "enlightenment" of the Sixties. Students read popular fiction of the era, including WWII novels, noir/detective novels, romance novels, and gay and lesbian "pulp" fiction. The course incorporates the fiction with a range of primary and secondary postwar texts in order to illuminate postwar anxieties around war/violence, gender/sexuality, class/conformity, and race/ethnicity. (Cr eadick, Spring, offered ann

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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