Review:
Continuity of American Literature should be re-named Continuity of American Discrimination because of the class's grading structure. Students have a midterm, a final, and one short essay. This is certainly not enough writing for an English course. As a result, the class is dominated by Professor Johnson's take on the readings. Indeed, Johnson allows ample class discussion of the readings, but all the while inserts too much of her very liberal politics into literature that has nothing to do with sexism, racism, or homophobia. The experienced English student will be frustrated by the deconstruction of every white male author to a racist chauvinist. This course is recommended only to novice literature students, who must take the lectures with a grain of salt. Conservatives should be prepared to be horrified. Lectures are interesting but myopic, and while texts were well selected (ranging from Native American texts to classics by Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville), reading excerpts is not always the best way to learn literature.

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