Course details

Name: ENGL - 250

Title: VICTORIAN POPULAR FICTION

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2017

Credits: 3

Description:
Please note: Before the end of the spring term, this course will be renumbered by MSU as ENGL 349. ENGL 349 will be the new permanent number for the course.

A course on the emergence of modern genre fiction in the second half of the nineteenth century, including detective fiction, neo-gothic horror, colonial adventure fiction, scientific romance (or science fiction), and sensation fiction. Along the way, we’ll encounter such notable literary scoundrels as Professor Moriarty, Mr. Hyde, Dr. Moreau, and a vampire or two, and we’ll review the development of the Victorian ghost story tradition by such masters as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Sheridan LeFanu. Critical issues we'll address include the rise of modern print media, racist imperial fantasy, sexual transgression at the fin de siècle, the figure of the “New Woman” of the 1890s, and theories of the sublime, the monstrous, and the uncanny.

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 11:30 am To 12:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Behlman Lee (behlmanl)

Is course canceled: No