ENGL 235 Identity and Race in American Literature

Focuses upon the works of major American writers and defines and analyzes how the sentiments and attitudes of the Romantic and Realist periods become intertwined with race in the literary process of imagining and representing American identity. Authors include Stephen Crane, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Jacob Riis, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Mark Twain.