10:10A-11:00A MWF (70) 3 cr

Rather than attempting to present a "survey" of the major
authors, this course focuses on a number of issues and problems
relevant to different kinds of texts written during this period
of enormous social change in America.  These issues will be
defined during the first half of the semester on the basis of
reading works by four women (R.H. Davis, C.P. Gilman, S.O.
Jewett, and Edith Wharton), three African American writers (B.T.
Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and J.W. Johnson), and several writers
dealing with life in the cities (H. Alger, J. Riis, and  T.
Dreiser).  The next segment of the semester will deal with two
very different writers -- Stephen Crane and Henry James -- with
half of the class concentrating on one and the other half on the
other author.  The semester will conclude with a study of some of
the modern critical controversies and differences in
interpretation of Mark Twain's HUCKLEBERRY FINN.  Intensive class
discussion, three papers, and one or two in-class essays will be
required.