76 213 - 19th Century British Literature

Institution:

Carnegie Mellon University

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Description:

Topics vary by semester. Consult the course descriptions provided by the department for current offerings. Example, Summer 2009: This class will explore Gothic literature of the Victorian period in England (1837-1901). Though the Gothic as a genre was arguably played out by the 1820s, its conventions continue to permeate literature, appearing in penny dreadfuls, ghost stories, sensation fiction, detective stories, adventure novels and science fiction. We will read stories in which England, explosive with expansion, progress and industry, is represented as a site of degeneration and decay. We will consider how xenophobia, urban development and industrialism, science and medicine, empire, sexology and the New Woman shape representations of the Gothic. These stories of the supernatural fly in the face of science and rationality. Our texts will include: James Malcolm Ryner's penny dreadful Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood (1847-48), Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Haunters and The Haunted (1859), some short ghost stories by Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, H. Rider Haggard's She (1887), H.G. Wells? The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).

Credits:

9.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.cmu.edu/

Phone Number:

(412) 268-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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