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American Literature

Modernism and William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury (1929)

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Professor Nicolas Tredell discusses key American novels from 1880-1940, as well as looking back to the literary developments of the 1850s.

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A New Repertoire of Possibilities – Looking Back to the 1850s

Henry James – The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

Mark Twain – Huckleberry Finn (1884)

Naturalism and Theodore Dreiser – Sister Carrie (1900)

Willa Cather – My Ántonia (1918)

Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence (1920)

Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Modernism and William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury (1929)

John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

The Harlem Renaissance and Richard Wright - Native Son (1940)