English 249 - Twentieth Century American Fiction

20th C. American Fiction

Fall
2026
01
4.00
Torleif Persson

TU TH 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM

Smith College
ENG-249-01-202701
tpersson@smith.edu
A survey of major aesthetic shifts in American fiction in the twentieth century, moving from realism and naturalism into modernism and late modernism. How did American novelists—from a variety of economic and racial backgrounds—imagine the relationship between their “American subject” and aesthetic innovation in the context of rapid industrialization, global conflict, and racial segregation? Authors studied may include Henry James, Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. (E)
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