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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

ENG 247 Darwin & Literature

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3

Notes

This Humanities (English) elective examines the way that American authors have influenced and been influenced by the science of evolution. Although Charles Darwin was British, he had a tremendous impact not only on Western civilization and European thought, but also on a period of writing called American literary naturalism.