English 242 includes American Literature from Henry James to Toni Morrison. Focusing on selected writers, we will read some of the major works and writers within this period and discuss the seminal ideas that emerge from them. We will begin with W. D. Howells and Henry James's visions of Realism, and from there, we will follow Realism through its progression into the Naturalism of Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Kate Chopin. We will then study Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the representatives of the so-called "Lost Generation" of writers, followed by the works of Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as well as other poets and short story writers, and concluding with Toni Morrison.

I will not be teaching English 242 this semester.

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