English · Boston College
Fulfills pre-1900 requirement.. The decades following the Civil War were a time of fundamental change in U.S. society: the demise of the slave system and the rise of segregation; the emergence of industrialism, corporate culture, imperial adventurism, and successive waves of immigration; new roles for women; new patterns in cities and in regional byways; and new ideas imagined for reordering and reinventing democratic society all transformed the contours of daily life. This course examines how a diverse range of U.S. writers sought to capture and address these developments with new literary fo
