We'll read a discuss an assortment of stories and novels written by American authors in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Students will be expected to keep up with the assigned readings, attend class regularly, take part in class-discussion, and write a series of in-class essays on questions which will be handed out in advance.

Texta: Judith Fetterly, ed., AMERICAN WOMEN REGIONALISTS 1850-1910; William Dean Howells, THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM; Kate Chopin, THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIES; Frank Norris, McTEAGUE; Stephen Crane, THE GREAT SHORT WORKS OF STEPHEN CRANE; Mark Twain, THE GREAT SHORT WORKS OF MARK TWAIN; Henry James, THE AMERICAN; and Charles Chesnutt, THE CONJURE WOMAN.