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Course Descriptions

This entire course will be devoted to the great fantasy and mystical literature of the period. In addition to the poetry of Tennyson, Robert Browning, Arnold, and Hopkins, we will look at the fiction of Carroll, Conan Doyle, Dickens, Kipling, Mrs. Gaskell, Rider Haggard, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde. We will also view the film Dreamchild. The units of the course will include: Times Long Ago; The Adult Children’s Story; The Double; Ghosts and Vampires; and Exotic Journeys.

Texts:

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. E: The Victorian Period. 8^th Edition.

Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. Norton

Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles. Oxford World’s Classics

Dickens, A Christmas Carol . Simon & Schuster Enriched

Grant and Kennedy, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Waverley Books

Haggard, H. Rider. She.

James, The Turn of the Screw. Norton

Kipling, Kim. Norton

Stoker, Bram, Dracula. Norton

Thomas and Giordano. Dracula. Marvel Comics adaptation

Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Norton