This upper-level seminar studies works of creative literature with political themes. The readings will be works of fiction mainly.
Washington Irving, History, Tales, and Sketches. New York: Library of America, 1983. Includes materials from 1802 to 1819. ISBN 0940450143.
Auqustus Baldwin Longstreet, Georgia Scenes Completed. Ed. Includes materials from the 1830s and 1840s. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. ISBN 0820320196.
William Wells Brown, Clotel; or, the President's Daughter. Ed. Robert S. Levine. This text was published in 1853. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. ISBN 0312152655.
T. S. Arthur, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Ed. Jon Miller. Acton, Massachusetts: Copley Publishing, 2002. This novel was first published in 1854. ISBN 1583900160.
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age. New York: Penguin Classics, 2001. This novel was first published in 1873. ISBN 014043920X.
Lillie Devereux Blake, Fettered for Life. New York: Feminist Press, 1997. This novel was first published in 1874. ISBN 155861155X.
Horatio Alger, From Canal Boy to President: or, The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield. This novel was first published in 1881. Philadelphia: Polyglot Press, 2005. ISBN 1411500016.
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