English 388A - Before Trainspotting:The Rise of the Scottish Novel Alker

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Whitman College

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How did a nation associated with sublime scenery, compelling music, Calvinism, and a colorful history become the setting of a novel as dark and disturbed as Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting This course will address this question by examining the history of the Scottish novel. In the first half of the course, we will focus on Scottish fiction between the Anglo-Scottish Union in 1707 and the Victorian era, paying particular attention to themes of tourism, religion, the supernatural, sentiment, and the disturbed psyche. In the second half of the course, we will attend to the way the 20th-century novel reformulates national identity to include themes of fascism, drug use, the monstrous, cannibalism, and cadavers. Authors may include: Tobias Smollett, Henry Mackenzie, Walter Scott, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray, and Irvine Welsh.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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