Course Description

37-374 United States Imperial Culture F(3-0) [0.50]

This multigenre course will introduce students to a period of intense cultural struggle in the United States, from Civil to First World War (i.e. from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries). Topics for consideration may include the literary representation of race, civil war, and empire; machine and mass culture; emergent literatures and changing constituencies of American citizenship. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in odd-numbered years.)

Prerequisites: 37-106, 37-120.

Course Profile

1998-99 Undergraduate Calendar