ENGL 180: |
The Victorian Era |
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| Fall 2009 |
| Instructor: Brian Donnelly |
| Meets on: MW 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM BSIF 1217 |
| Prerequisites: Writing 2, 50, or 109; English 10; or upper-division standing |
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| Satisfies a GE area G and a Writing requirement |
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This course covers both poetry and fiction of the Victorian period with a focus on the darker side of familiar things. Genres such as the gothic, the sensation novel, detective fiction and the horror story, and forms such as the dramatic monologue are studied as representatives of alterity and otherness during a period where the dominant mode of representation resided with the realist forms of the novel and visual art.
Concerned largely with the latter part of the Victorian era, we will examine the underside of nineteenth-century culture, particularly the fascination with the supernatural, the criminal, the psychological, the sexual, and the deviant. The texts selected demonstrate a growing interest in the relationship between the individual and the ‘other’, and include authors Robert Browning, Augusta Webster, Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. G. Wells.
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