Project Summary: As a capstone to the semester’s study of American Suburban Literature, students will compose a literature research essay regarding a facet of one or more of the texts we have studied. Your final essay will be a literary research paper exploring one or more works we have studied this semester, utilizing whichever lens/ approach your argument warrants. Throughout this semester we have explored American Suruban Literature in all its glory, from its incipience in the 1880s through the heady days of the roaring 1920s, and the heyday of the 1950s and into the 21st century. We’ve discussed race, class, and gender, masculinity and conformity, careers and marriages, and mental illness. This assi