Course Content
Each Reading assignments will cover major periods of American literature history from post-Civil War Era to present. Representative authors will be selected but not limited ones listed on this outline.
A. Realist and Regionalist
1. Twain
2. Howells
3. James
4. Harte
5. Chopin
6. Crane
7. Dreiser
B. Early Twentieth Century
1. Robinson
2. Frost
3. Anderson
4. Eliot
5. Cummings
C. Literature between the Wars
1. Porter
2. Fitzgerald
3. Faulkner
4. Hemingway
5. Wolfe
6. Stevens
7. Hughes
D. Literature at Mid-Century
1. Williams
2. Jarrell
3. Welty
4. Chever
5. Ellison
6. O'Connor
E. Later Twentieth Century
1. Dickey
2. Rich
3. UPdike
4. Roth
5. Walker