AML 4121 - Fall 2025 - Franklin

American Novels will explore the term “American” and the idea of what it means for a work to be an “American novel.” We will study the current events taking place in the timeline of the fictions when the novels were written. We will discuss the timelessness of the work and how the 20th and 21st century shaped the novel.

Texts may include these novels and others:

Dune by Frank Herbert

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt