Course Description

This seminar provides intensive study of exciting texts by four influential American authors. In studying paired works, we can enrich our sense of each author's distinctive methods, get a deeper sense of the development of their careers, and shake up our preconceptions about what makes an author or a work "great." …
This seminar provides intensive study of exciting texts by four influential American authors. In studying paired works, we can enrich our sense of each author’s distinctive methods, get a deeper sense of the development of their careers, and shake up our preconceptions about what makes an author or a work “great.” Students will get an opportunity to research an author in depth, as well as making broader comparisons across the syllabus.
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Written Assignments
Presentation Assignments
A portrait of Herman Melville.
Photograph of an etching of Herman Melville after a portrait by Joseph O. Eaton. (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number: LC-USZ62-135949 (b&w film copy neg.)])