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American Literature

The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
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This essay argues that Americans have become estranged from the land, suffered a loss of community, devalued labour and become enslaved to the pursuit of profit. Berry, a farmer as well as a well-known contemporary essayist, has an accessible though…
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
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From Amazon: Death Comes for the Archbishop sprang from Willa Cather's love for the land and cultures of the American Southwest. Published in 1927 to both praise and perplexity, it has since claimed for itself a major place in twentieth-century…
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The American by Henry James
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Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales by Russell Kirk
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Widely regarded as the founder of the modern conservative movement, Russell Kirk was a noted man of letters whose prodigious literary career included a syndicated newspaper column and a regular page in National Review. This volume demonstrates another compelling side…

American Literature Survey

by Tim Esh

  Course Description American Literature Survey is a chronological study of the development of American literature from Colonial and Revolutionary authors through the American Renaissance into the twentieth century. This course provides an extensive factual overview with in-depth study of selected…
American Modernisms

by Tim Esh

Course Description and Objectives This semester, you will read many acclaimed works of early twentieth-century American literature. The daily readings, writing assignments, and class discussions should promote your personal and intellectual engagement with the literature. This course will highlight…
The American Novel

by Tim Esh

Introduction The American Novel is a chronological study of the American novel from its beginnings in the Nineteenth Century to the present. Emphasis will be on works representative of major authors (i.e., Hawthorne and Twain), important types (i.e. , novel…

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