Introduction to the literature of the United States of America. A course in 28 sessions

Abstract

The course aims to provide second-year L2 undergraduate students majoring/minoring in English with a survey of the prose fiction produced in the United States from colonial times up to the first half of the twentieth century. The course reviews the work of, among others, Mary Rowlandson, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Zelda and Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner. Except for a selection of essays and three novels (The Scarlet Letter, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Red Badge of Courage), the majority of the readings are short stories. This course is intended as an introduction to more advanced and specialised courses on the literature produced in the United States and Canada.