Course Description

ENG 234 THE GILDED AGE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE   3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines American literature from 1865-1914, a most complicated and transformative moment in American literature and culture. It is a time period when America experienced great growth and wealth, dire poverty, rapid urbanization, accelerated industry, unprecedented immigration, and racial conflict and reconstruction. American writing developed its identity in forms of realism and naturalism as ways of representing and shaping the social forces of race, gender, and class during this Gilded Age in America. Prerequisite: Take FYWS-125
Offered: Fall Semester All Years