Literature 215 - Victorian Essays and Detectives

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Bard College

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Victorian Studies Students read and discuss essays by Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Henry Mayhew, and Oscar Wilde addressing Victorian issues such as crime, art, and science; and detective stories and novels by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, and other inventors of the detective genre. The syllabus emphasizes such pairings as Thomas Henry Huxley writing on the scientific method and Doyle's Study in Scarlet, Pater's The Renaissance and Doyle's "The Sign of Four,?nd Wilde's "De Profundis" and Sheridan LFanu's "The Murdered Cousin.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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