ENGL 330 - Modernist Chicago: Urban Literature and Sociology

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CAST
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR

This course focuses on literature associated with the social, literary, and academic scene of Chicago from 1900 to 1959. Reading multi-ethnic articulations of patterns of identity and lifestyle emerging due to rapid industrialization, migration, and class differentiation, we will consider both social and formal features of this strain of modernism (in works by Dreiser, Anderson, Farrell, Wright, Himes, and Hansberry, among others); we will also examine select sociological studies and reflections on Chicago’s intellectual culture. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Instructor: G. Johns
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.