ENGL 356 - New Orleans, New England: The Regional and the National

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
During regionalism’s heyday at the turn into the twentieth century, the cultures of New Orleans and New England – literary, linguistic, musical, visual, culinary – were cast as “regional.” What did regionalization entail as the post-Reconstruction nation consolidated? What constituted a “region”? We’ll study literature by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, George Washington Cable, Charles W. Chesnutt, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Pauline Hopkins and others as well as cultural phenomena like New Orleans’ French Opera, the emergence of jazz, and Colonial Revival within local and national historical and political contexts. American, Diversity, 1700-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.”