[Prerequisite: ENGL 115 or equivalent or through the Southwestern College multiple measures placement processes. Recommended Preparation: ENGL 116 and ENGL 220, or equivalent.] Surveys American literature from the end of the 1800s to the present covering major literary movements of Realism, Naturalism, etc. Includes major writers such as Dickinson, Ellison, Cisneros, Hurston, Whitman, Frost, Cummings, Twain, Faulkner, Hemingway, Morrison, Williams, and O'Neill. [D; CSU; UC; C-ID ENGL 135]