ENGL 868 - Edith Wharton and Henry James

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Trinity College

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Their lives stretched from a pre-industrial time of horses and carriages to a modern era of automobiles and skyscrapers. As members of social and cultural elites, they were front-line observers of the original Gilded Age (to which many have likened our own historical moment). With Victorian mores on the wane, they and their characters contended with complicated and shifting ideas about gender and marriage. In this course, we will study the work of two American writers who represented these profound social changes in intricate psychological dramas written in some of the most stylistically accomplished prose in the English language. By reading and discussing short stories, novels, and essays by Edith Wharton and Henry James, we will consider their influence on each other and on the literary categories of realism and modernism; their works' implications about gender, identity, and power; and the historical and economic context of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Note: English 468-05 and English 868-17 are the same course.) For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it satisfies the requirement of an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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