Instr:                 Andrew Martin
Office:              CRT 417,     229-5595
e-mail:              andym@uwm.edu
Office hours:     TBA and by appointment.

Course Information:     Mon, Wed  1:30-2:45 pm          Curtin Hall 368
 

Course Description

In this course we will explore American literature and culture from the 1870s to the turn of the twentieth century. It is hoped that the novels and reading that have been selected will give students a feel for the range and depth of social, cultural, and political change that marks the era. Beginning with Mark Twain's The Gilded Age (the novel that named the period), we will be reading works by Sarah Orne Jewett, Pauline Hopkins, William Dean Howells, Henry Adams, Theodore Dreiser, Edward Bellamy, Edith Wharton, and more.

Two required text books will compliment the literature:
The Social Construction of Realism, by Amy Kaplan, and
The Incorporation of America, by Alan Trachtenberg.