#  English 178x. The American Novel: Dreiser to the Present 

 



 Instructor: [Philip Fisher](/people/philip-fisher)  
Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location  
[Course Site](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/126413)  
A survey of the 20th-century novel, its forms, patterns of ideas, techniques, cultural context, rivalry with film and radio, short story, and fact. Wharton, *Age of Innocence*; Cather, *My Antonia*; Hemingway, *A Farewell to Arms* and stories; Faulkner, *The Sound and the Fury* and stories; Ellison, *Invisible Man*; Nabokov, *Lolita*; Robinson, *Housekeeping*; Salinger, *Catcher in the Rye* and stories; Ha Jin, *Waiting;* Lerner, *Leaving the Atocha Station.* Stories by James, London, Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Gaitskill, Wallace, Beattie, Lahiri, and Ford.  
  
This course satisfies the “1900-2000 Guided Elective" requirement for English concentrators and Secondary Field students.



 



 

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