Course details
Name: ENGL - 349
Title: VICTORIAN POPULAR FICTION
Section: 41
Semester: Summer - 2024
Credits: 3
Description:
PLEASE NOTE: this is a synchronous online class. We will meet on Zoom from 9:00am to 11:30am, Monday through Thursday, from May 13 to June 6, 2024.
This course deals with the emergence of modern genre fiction in the second half of the nineteenth century, including detective fiction, neo-gothic horror, scientific romance (or science fiction), and sensation fiction. Along the way, we’ll encounter such notable literary scoundrels as Professor Moriarty, Mr. Hyde, 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 and historical 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.
Last updated on 2023-10-16 By
Behlman Lee (behlmanl)
Schedule: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday From 9:00 am To 11:30 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