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English 697-2:  

Reading and Writing the Early American City

We are a graduate seminar in the English MA program at UMass Boston exploring the roots of an American urban consciousness in its textual forms.  Our look back at some of the nation's earliest texts will be facilitated by new technologies, especially online archives and full-text editions of out-of-print books.  By the end of the semester, we hope to make available an enhanced electronic edition of an early novel—a new ebook with critical, cultural and pedagogical commentary that will make the novel less obscure, more accessible and readily teachable to Americanists everywhere.