Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 21L.702 (Fall 2007) 
• Course Title:
• Studies in Fiction: Rethinking the American Masterpiece 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Literature 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Dr. Wyn Kelley 
• Course Introduction:
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  21L.702 Studies in Fiction: Rethinking the American Masterpiece
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2007

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  
  
  21L.702 Studies in Fiction: Rethinking the American Masterpiece
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2007

  
  
  

  

  Mark Twain (1835-1910), author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). (Photo dated 1907. Courtesy of University of Virginia, Mark Twain in His Times.)

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  What has been said of Moby-Dick—that it's the greatest novel no one ever reads—could just as well be said of any number of American "classics" like The Scarlet Letter, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This course reconsiders a small number of nineteenth-century American novels by presenting each in a surprising context.