ENG 152 - The American Novel

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

This course traces the development of the novel in America from the late eighteenth century to the present. In addition to examining different types of fiction, such as sentimental, realistic, modernist, and postmodernist, we will also explore how these novels were shaped by and contributed to some of the social and cultural forces of their day. What makes these works "American?" How do they portray social, economic, and ethnic hierarchies in the United States? How do they wrestle with the failures of America's promise to offer all its citizens freedom and equality? After considering some of the earliest examples of American novels, we will study writers such as James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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