ENG 338LEC—The Novel in the U.S.

The course explores the American novel from the 1800s through the present, including touchstone works of long fiction by Twain, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Nabokov, Bellow, Morrison, Tan, Pynchon, and Mailer. By considering novels as both representative (participating in the cultural conversations of their times) and hermeneutic (affording practice and skills in the arts of interpretation), students will consider what made the American novel uniquely American.