American Literature 3

Examines American literature as it entered the twentieth century with the psychological novels of James and Wharton. Further exploration of the American dream covers the stories and poetry of the Harlem renaissance of Hughes, Hurston, Redmond, and Wright; the Jazz Age of Fitzgerald and Hemingway; the consideration of what it means to be a “hyphenated” American in the writings of Yezerskia and McCarthy, Zitkala-Sa, and Sui Sin Far. Considers political movements such as socialism and progressivism in the writings of Miller, Steinbeck, Odets, and Gold. Explores modernism in poetry in the works of Frost, Millay, Stevens, Bishop, Lowell, and Brooks.

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