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American Fiction

X135A (3 semester units in English)

An elective in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing

In reading classic works by authors such as Twain, Poe, Crane, Melville, Wharton, Hawthorne, London, and others, you survey the major American novelists and short-story writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. You learn about various literary movements such as romanticism, realism, and naturalism, and are encouraged to consider questions of aesthetics, morality, poverty, racism, gender, and power.

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