American Fiction

Survey the major American novelists and short-story writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jack London. In addition to learning about various literary movements—such as romanticism, realism and naturalism—you consider questions of aesthetics, morality, poverty, racism, gender and power.