Course details
Name: ENGL - 349
Title: VICTORIAN POPULAR FICTION
Section: 01
Semester: Spring - 2022
Credits: 3
Description:
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.
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Behlman Lee (behlmanl)
Schedule: Tuesday,Friday From 8:15 am To 9:30 am
Graduation requirements:
- 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