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X135A (3 semester units in English)

An elective in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing

Survey the major American novelists and short-story writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jack London. Learn about various literary movements—such as romanticism, realism and naturalism—and consider questions of aesthetics, morality, poverty, racism, gender and power.

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