ENG 3085 IMAGES OF THE CITY IN U.S. LITERATURE
A study of the images of the city in representative fiction and poetry of the United States. The course will pursue a variety of imagined cities in our literary history from the construction of the city as an arena of decadence and failed expectation to the imagination of the city as an icon of progress and beacon of the future. Authors to be considered will include Cather, Dreiser, Ellison, Fitzgerald, Pynchon, Henry Roth, and Nathanael West.