Welcome to American Writers. Please check back shortly for more information about class requirements, as well as background about the authors and historical periods we'll be discussing during the course of the quarter. We have a lot in store! The period from 1865-1914 was a rich one in American history and American literary history. In our time together, we'll look at a number of currents that shaped the literature and culture of the time--currents that, in many cases, continue to reverberate in the contemporary American landscape. The idea of the Western frontier, the increasing availability of rail travel, the rise of America as a colonial power, battles over literary form, and shifts in discourses about race and gender at the time all had vast effects on the writers we'll study. Stay tuned for more.
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