Topics in Nineteenth Century American Literature & Culture
Course: English 350:442 Index: 33222
Instructor: Michael Goeller, goeller@rci.rutgers.edu
Meeting: Wednesday 4:30-7:30 p.m., Hardenbergh Hall, Room B2

Description: If the romance as a genre is often a story of inheritance, why does it become such a dominant form in nineteenth century America, where the discourse of anti-inheritance was so common? And how do the questions of inheritance that the writers of the nineteenth century struggled with relate to our own age, where property inheritance is increasingly naturalized? These are some of the questions we will address in this seminar. More>>>