ENGL 451: Outsiders & U.S. Regionalism

Course Description

Regionalism, one of the defining literary movements of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S., emerged in the wake of the massive social changes that followed the American Civil War, such as industrialization, Jim Crow segregation, new immigration patterns, and changing notions of gender and sexuality. Regionalism's themes of nostalgia and resistance to change exist in contradiction with the movement's association with literary outsiders who challenged society’s norms. This course will study this debate about Regionalism with the “outsider” theme in mind. Students cannot receive credit for bothENGL 451andENGL 551.