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Sexuality
Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood*

Selection of poetry by H.D (Hilda Doolittle)

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Small towns, small communities
Extract from Thornton Wilders’ Our Town

Extract from Porgy and Bess

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Thomas Wolfe ‘The Lost Boy

Carlos Bulosan ‘Homecoming’

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Week Eight Focus: Privilege and class in the Jazz age.

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Week Eight Focus: Privilege and class in the Jazz age.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald short story

Dorothy Parker’s ‘The Waltz’

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Extract of Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

James M Cain 'The Icebox Baby

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Passing by Nella Larsen*

Poetry by Langston Hughes

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Week Five Focus: Migration and the changing face of America

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Week Five Focus: Migration and the changing face of America

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Extract from Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie

Poetry by William Carlos Williams

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Extract from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Extract from The Iron Heel by Jack London

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Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

Poetry by Emily Dickinson

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Extract from Abraham Cahan's   The Imported Bridegroom.

Extract from Henry James The Europeans

Extract from Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans

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Week One Focus: What is American Literature?

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Week One Focus: What is American Literature?

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Native American Chants and Songs (YouTube)

Extract from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

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By the end of the course you will be able to:

1) Confidently discuss at least three examples of cultural, social and/or political influences that inform our texts.

2) Name at least three texts that explore either: gender, masculinity, race, religion or class.

3) Provide at least two examples of how the texts examine the American ‘landscape’.

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The Course explores American Literature written between towards the end of the nineteenth century and before WWII, Known as the age of modernity, in particular, texts written between WWI and WWII