Annotation
OBJECTIVES
An examination of the practitioners of the American romance tradition who built upon the distinction, made by Nathaniel Hawthorne, between "romances" and "fictions" (novels).
MATERIAL
Henry James: The Europeans
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Kate Chopin: The Awakening
Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Ralph Ellison: The Invisible Man
Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
ASSESSMENT to be specified.