2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
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2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 117 - The New York Scene in Literature


A study of the extraordinarily diverse New York “scene,” from the 19th century to now, as reported and reflected in texts set in and around the environs of New York City. Works of authors like Irving, Whitman, Melville, James, Wharton, O. Henry, Crane, Cather, Fitzgerald, Runyon, Hurston, Cahan, Yezierska, Larsen, Powell, E.B. White, Frank O’Hara, Ellison, Capote, Baldwin, Morrison, Roth, DeLillo, Hijuelos, Chang-Rae Lee, and Colson Whitehead are included.

3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits
Fall and Spring