The aim of this course is to enable the student to acquire the knowledge, skills, and competence required to gain the knowledge of the American Novel, analyse literary, social, historical, philosophical and theoretical developments of the novel, and to investigate primary characteristics of the American Novel via the novels written in different periods.

In this course, the technical and thematic changes in the American Novel are evaluated. In this context, the social, economic, political and philosophical features of American novels are analysed and discussed in the light of their differences from previous periods. The selected literary works of the period are evaluated.