AHI 365 - Art and Culture in Victorian America

Institution:

University at Buffalo

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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines how American writers and artists negotiated the complexities of U.S. society during the final third of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing issues ranging from women s rights to laissez-faire capitalism, and from Reconstruction to manifest destiny, we consider how the era s cultural products provided artists, patrons, and audiences with metaphoric coping strategies to counteract what Victorians perceived to be the period s overwhelming social and political changes.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.buffalo.edu

Phone Number:

(716) 645-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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