The American Novel Since 1945 - Video

In this first lecture Professor Hungerford introduces the course's academic requirements and some of its central concern... Read more

In this first of two lectures on Blood Meridian, Professor Hungerford walks us through some of the novel's major sources... Read more

In this lecture on The Human Stain, Professor Hungerford traces the ways that Roth's novel conforms to and pushes beyond... Read more

In this second lecture on Blood Meridian, Professor Hungerford builds a wide-ranging argument about the status of good a... Read more

Professor Hungerford draws a contrast between Toni Morrison and most of the writers studied up to this point in the cour... Read more

At the very beginning of the course, Professor Hungerford offered students the opportunity to pitch a novel of their cho... Read more

In this lecture at the midpoint of the course Professor Hungerford takes stock of the syllabus thus far and to come by l... Read more

Professor Hungerford situates Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping (1980) in a tradition of American writing about th... Read more

In this lecture Professor Hungerford discusses how the novels we read are shaped by legal and market constraints. She tr... Read more

Professor Hungerford introduces this lecture by reviewing the ways that authors on the syllabus up to this point have de... Read more