Topics will vary by semester. Consult the course descriptions provided by the Department each semester for current offerings. Example: American Fiction of the 20s and 30s. The 1920s and 1930s are important decades in twentieth-century America. Popular wisdom has it that they are decidedly different from one another and from contemporary America. We will read four novels from each decade not only to see how they compare with each other, but also to see how they compare with the America you are experiencing. We will also examine how various racial, ethnic, and religious groups are dealt with in the novels of the two decades.
