ENG 3540 - Studies in American Literatures

Goals: A critical study of a specific topic or period in American literature.

Content: Intensive analysis of texts in their cultural contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: American Literature of Landscape and Nature; Walt Whitman and Modern American Poetry; Beats, Bop, and the Status Quo; Comedy and Postmodernism; Women’s Bildungsroman and Kunstlerroman; Science and Literature; Reading Whiteness; Reading Masculinities; Dramas of Race.

A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.

Taught: Annually

Note: The English department recommends that students take ENG 1900 and ENG 3020 before taking this course.

Credits: 4