Views the detective as purveyor of social mores. American multicultural narrative including Cooper, Hawthorne, Brown, Melville, Jacobs, Twain, and others. Multicultural fiction including Chopin, Dreiser, R lvaag, Fitzgerald, Cather, Sanford, DiDonato, Steinbeck, Wright, and others. Several major classics of fiction such as works by Austen, Eliot, and Dostoevsky. Several major classics of fiction such as works by Dickens, Flaubert, and Tolstoy.
Studies plays that reflect America regionally, ethnically, spiritually, and aesthetically.
Also THAR 440. Readings in drama to discover how playwrights from the Greeks to the present have dealt with continuing concerns of life and theatrical presentation. Also THAR 441. Major works from Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, and others for their own merit and as a reflection of the English Renaissance. Also THAR 442.