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Appendix D: John J. McAleer’s Courses of Instruction: 1972-1976
Compiled from the Boston College Bulletin, volumes XLIV-XLVII

Schoolyear: 1972-3 | 1973-4 | 1974-5 | 1975-6 |

1972-3

Fall 1972

En 182.03 Major American Writers
"The Mosaic myth and the pursuit of the American Dream as chronicled by advocates and adversaries. Authors studied will include Hawthorne, Twain, Thoreau, Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Capote, Steinbeck, and Hannibal."

En 211 The Matter of the Red Man
"The American Indian, most malleable of literary properties, studied as he runs the gauntlet of caucasian caprice from the days of the captivity narratives through the works of Morton, Freneau, Irving, Cooper, Crockett, Bird, Simms, Parkman, Jackson, Twain, Beston, Edmonds, Guthrie, and Richter."

En 734 Romanticism in American Literature
"American historical and philosophical romanticism, romanticism of sentiment and of the frontier, and Gothicism, studied in the works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Melville, Stowe, Dickinson, and Whitman."

(Evening College) En 197 Crime Fiction and Folk Myth
"Detective Fiction as an art form studied in the works of Poe, Gaboriau, Collins, Doyle, Chesterton, Freeman, Sayers, Christie, Hammett, Chandler, Stout, Allingham, Tey Van Gulik, Simenon, Ross MacDonald and others, together with critical assessments by Auden, Alvarez, Gide, Malraux, Krutch, Barzun, Wilson and Van Doren."

Spring 1973

En 183.03 Major American Writers II
"The Boot Strap Myth and the Grail Impulse. Alienation and the search for new affirmations in American life, studied in seminal works of Howells, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Salinger, Knowles, Skinner, Forst, Beston and Kosinski."

En 212 Realism and Naturalism in American Literature
"The quest for truth and self-awareness traced in the fiction of Crane, James, Dreiser, Wharton, Anderson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Wright, Salinger, Knowles, Kosinski."

En 735 Counter-Romanticism in American Literature
"Repudiation of the tenets of romanticism as variously dealt with in the works of Twain, Howells, Crane, Kirkland, Jewett, James, Chopin, Frederic, Dreiser, and Wharton, discussed in terms of its implications for American literature and life."

(Evening College) En 198 Realism & Naturalism in Our National Literature
"The evolution of modern American fiction traced in the works of Crane, James, Dreiser, Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Wright, Salinger, Knowles and Anderson."

Summer 1973

En 717.01 New England in Fiction: The Brahmin World
"The cultural ascendancy of Boston studied in the novels of James, Howells, Crawford, Bates, Grant, Sinclair, Dos Passos, Marquand, Santayana, Stafford, O’Connor, and Sheehan."

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1973-4

Fall 1973

En 182.03 Major American Writers
"The Mosaic myth and the pursuit of the American Dream as chronicled by advocates and adversaries. Authors studied will include Hawthorne, Twain, Thoreau, Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Capote, Steinbeck, and Hannibal."

En 211 The Matter of the Red Man
"The American Indian, most malleable of literary properties, studied as he runs the gauntlet of caucasian caprice from the days of the captivity narratives through the works of Morton, Freneau, Irving, Cooper, Crockett, Bird, Simms, Parkman, Jackson, Twain, Beston, Edmonds, Guthrie, and Richter."

En 734 Romanticism in American Literature.
"American historical and philosophical romanticism, romanticism of sentiment and of the frontier, and Gothicism, studied in the works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Melville, Stowe, Dickinson, and Whitman."

(Evening College) En 262 The Concord Idealists
"American transcendental idealism, the Nature Ethic, and Utopianism, studied in the works of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, Fuller, Ripley, and Dickinson."

Spring 1974

[Sabbatical]

(Evening College) En 263 American Literary Biography
"Biography as an art form studied in major biographies of James, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Frost, Poe, O’Neill, Dickinson, and Twain."

Summer 1974

En 752.91 American Gothic
"The psychology of terror, examined as a literary resource, in tales of the grotesque, preternatural, and macabre; in the pioneer Gothicism of Poe, Hawthorne, O’Brien, and James; in the neo-Gothicism of Faulkner, Lovecraft, Derleth, O’Connor, Jackson, and Levin; and in selected foreign exemplar, including Tieck, Lewis, Ms. Shelley, Collins, Doyle, Stoker and Baroness Dinesen."

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1974-5

Fall 1974

En 263 American Literary Biography
"Biography as an art form studied in major biographies of James, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Frost, Poe, O'Neill, Dickinson, and Twain."

En 268 Transcendentalism in American Literature
"The transcendental insurgence, studied in the works of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Whitman, James Alcott, Brownson, Fuller, and Frost."

(Evening College) En 275 Boston in Fiction: The Brahmin World
"The cultural ascendancy of Boston studied in the novels of James, Howells, Crawford, Bates, Grant, Sinclair, Dos Passos, Marquand, Santayana, Stafford, O'Connor, and Sheehan."

Spring 1975

En 275 Boston in Fiction: The Brahmin World
"The cultural ascendancy of Boston studied in the novels of James, Howells, Crawford, Bates, Grant, Sinclair, Dos Passos, Marquand, Santayana, Stafford, O'Connor, and Sheehan."

En 734 Romanticism in American Literature.
"American historical and philosophical romanticism, romanticism of sentiment and of the frontier, and Gothicism, studied in the works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Melville, Stowe, Dickinson, and Whitman."

En 762 Seminar: Dreiser
"A study of the total conception which Dreiser rendered as pioneer symbolist, social determinist and natural mystic. Encountered in his fiction, personal narratives and his philosophical opus, Notes on Life."

(Evening College) En 19701 Crime Fiction and Folk Myth
"Detective fiction as an art form studied in the works of Poe, Doyle, Chesterton, Sayers, Hammett, Chandler, Stout, Simenon, Van Gulik, Christie, Tey and MacDonald. Critical assessments will take direction from appraisals by Auden, Wilson, Barzun, Van Doren, Krutch, Rontley, Simons, Haycroft, Rollo, Grella, Crider, Knox, Highet and Sir Hugh Greene. A trans-cultural course of literary, psychological and sociological dimensions."

Summer 1975

En275.91 Boston in Fiction: The Brahmin World
"The cultural ascendancy of Boston studied in the novels of James, Howells, Crawford, Bates, Grant, Sinclair, Dos Passos, Marquand, Santayana, Stafford, O’Connor and Sheehan."

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1975-6

Fall 1975

En 138 Romanticism in American Literature
"American historical and philosophical romanticism, romanticism of sentiment and of the frontier, and Gothicism, studied in the works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Melville, Stowe, Dickinson, and Whitman."

En 197 Crime Fiction and Folk Myth
"Detective fiction as an art form studied in the works of Poe, Doyle, Chesterton, Sayers, Hammett, Chandler, Stout, Simenon, Van Gulik, Christie, Tey, and MacDonald. Critical assessments will take direction from appraisals by Auden, Wilson, Barzun, Van Doren, Krutch, Rontley, Simons, Haycroft, Rollo, Grella, Crider, Knox, Highet and Sir Hugh Greene. A trans-cultural course of literary, psychological and sociological dimensions."

En 765 Transcendentalism in American Literature
"The transcendental insurgence, studied in the works of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Whitman, James Alcott, Brownson, Fuller, and Frost."

(Evening College) En 13802 Romanticism in American Literature
"American historical and philosophical romanticism, romanticism of sentiment and of the frontier, and Gothicism, studied in the works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, Melville, Stowe, Dickinson, and Whitman."

Spring 1976

En 252 Crime in Literature
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En 767 American Literary Biography
"Biography as an art form studied in major biographies of James, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Frost, Poe, O'Neill, Dickinson, and Twain."

(Evening College) En27501 Boston in Fiction: The Brahmin World
"The cultural ascendancy of Boston studied in the novels of James, Howells, Crawford, Bates, Grant, Sinclair, Dos Passos, Marquand, Santayana, Stafford, O’Connor and Sheehan."

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