American Literature 2

Examines the continuing themes of the nature of the American dream and the desire to create a distinctly American literature, beginning with the poetry of Dickinson and Whitman. Nineteenth-century American authors considered the nature of the individual and the American’s connection to nature. The city and its opportunities and dangers are explored by the naturalists such as Dreiser, Norris, and London. Realists studied and revealed life in the American West (Twain, Cather, and Harte) as well as the rural life that was changing in East Coast towns (Jewett, Freeman).

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