The American Imagination

Course Code: LIT2604

Start Date: 07/01/2026

Day of the Week:

Wednesday

Session: Morning

Delivery method: Hybrid (Centre and Zoom)

Length in weeks: 10

Time: 10am-12pm

Price: £

This course looks at two important novels published nearly a century apart, one set in New England the other in the South. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850), was described by D. H. Lawrence as a “perfect work of the American imagination” and Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Wise Blood’ (1952) has been describedby Anthony Burgess as a novel “like no other – the individuality is intense, the comedy fierce, the truth undeniable”.