Changing the Course of History: American Protest Novels
Paul Gutjahr
English
What power do novels exercise? Can they change people’s minds? Can they lead the world to a better place? This course will look at two hundred years of protest and reform novels in the United States, seeking to understand the problems they were trying to address and discern if the solutions they offered had any effect. Texts will include a range of novels from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. The course will include frequent reading quizzes and two formal papers, as well as informal writing assignments.
Catalog Information: HON-H 234 LITERATURE OF TIME AND PLACE