Instructor: DiMaggio
TR 09:30 AM – 10:50 AM
Title: Family Values in American Literature from 1900
Description: The image of the family has functioned consistently as a cornerstone of America’s national and political identity. For instance, President Lincoln famously described the Civil War as a family conflict when he proclaimed that “a house divided cannot stand.” This class will attend to a variety of genres and authors throughout the 20th and 21st centuries to consider what constitutes a family and what the family is believed to offer to the individual, to the community, to the nation. How is the concept of the family connected to American national identity, and how has the family changed as the nation has changed?