Imagining New York: the City in Fiction

This Freshman Seminar will explore the wide variety of ways in which the fiction of New York City embraces the diversity, possibilities, and realities of American life. Our exploration will include novels of immigration and high society and supernatural horror, historical tales and works of science fiction, and memoirs and graphic narratives--all of which share a commitment to exposing the dynamics of a city that embodies both the best possibilities of the American Dream of transformation and the cruel realities of poverty, racism, and social injustice.