American Fiction
X135A (3 semester units in English)
An elective in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in WritingIn 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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GARY TOMBLESON, Ph.D., earned graduate degrees at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. In addition to teaching on the campus at UC Berkeley, he has taught on ships at sea, in a federal prison, at an aeronautical university, a management school, and he designed a master of arts program in humanities and leadership.
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Textbook(s) for this course:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Penguin (Signet Classic)
Publication Year: 1997
ISBN: 0451526503
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Complete Tales and Poems
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Random House (Vintage Books)
Publication Year: 1975
ISBN: 0394716787
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Daisy Miller
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Publication Year: 1987
ISBN: 0140432620
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Author: Stephen Crane
Publisher: Random House (Fawcett)
Publication Year: 1983
ISBN: 0449300242
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McTeague
Author: Frank Norris
Publisher: Penguin (Signet Classic)
Publication Year: 2003
ISBN: 0451528913
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Moby Dick
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Penguin (Signet Classic)
Publication Year: 1998
ISBN: 0451526996
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The Country of Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Publication Year: 1995
ISBN: 0393311376
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The House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Publication Year: 1984
ISBN: 0553213202
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The Last of the Mohicans
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher: Penguin (Signet Classic)
Publication Year: 2005
ISBN: 0451529820
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
Author: William Dean Howells
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Publication Year: 1983
ISBN: 0140390308
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The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Penguin (Signet Classic)
Publication Year: 1999
ISBN: 0451526082
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The Sea Wolf
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Publication Year: 1984
ISBN: 0553212257