English 232a, 02 - Modern American Fiction (undergraduate)

This course explores the American contributors to Modernism--the Paris expatriates and the harlem Renaissance writers--as well as their immediate successors. This period (1909-1940) was a time of innovation in the novel, so we pay special attention to formal changes in the genre. It was also a time of historical transformation, so we investigate social and political issues raised by the literature.

Authors include Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Gertrude Stein, and Richard Wright.

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