ENG 3191 - 19TH CENTURY AMERICA: REALISM AND NATURALISM

credits: 3.0
Students will be introduced to the works of American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such as Mark Twain, Maria Ruiz deBurton, Henry James, Jack London, and Frank Norris. Objectives: Will explore the specific ways these writers rejected the literary conventions and attitudes of American romanticism and follow the evolution of Literary Realism and Naturalism as both a reaction against optimism and an action toward the use of fiction to revise established notions of morality. Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion; students must have read the assigned material and prepared for discussion. Method of Evaluation: Midterm, Final, and paper. Meets *WEP Distribution Requirement.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 2020 - MAJR ENGLISH AUTHORS I:MEDIEVAL ANDRENASANCE (or) ENG 2021 - MAJOR ENGLISH AUTHORS II:NEOCLASSICAL AND ROMANTIC (or) ENG 2022 - MAJOR ENGLISH AUTHORS III: VICTORANAND MODERN (or) ENG 2042 - AMERICAN LITERATURE: BEGINNING TOTHE CIVIL WAR (or) ENG 2043 - AMERICAN LITERATURE: CIVIL WAR TO 1945 (or) ENG 2044 - AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1945 TO PRESNT