This course is a survey of American literature from 1865 to the present. The course will provide students with an introduction to the history of American literature since the Civil War, examining a broad range of literary genres and considering the complex cultural and social context in which these important literary texts were written. Authors may include Mark Twain, Henry James, Jack London, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, and Toni Morrison.