Literature and the Fantastic
Fall 2009 ENGL 0410A S01
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Instructor: Vanessa L. Ryan
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Information on meeting times for this course can be found on Course Schedule at http://selfservice.brown.edu
Course Description
Considers the changing ways Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, and late-19th-century authors incorporate non-realistic and fantastic themes and elements in literature. Special attention to the relationship between realism and fantasy in different genres. Readings include stories (gothic, ghost, and adventure), fairy tales, short novels, plays, and poems. Shakespeare, Swift, Brothers Grimm, Charles Dickens, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Henry James. Two lectures and one discussion meeting weekly. Students will be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class.
Instructor's Description
This course has been capped for size. Registered students who are not present at the first course meetings will be dropped from the course. Students not present at the first course meetings will not be allowed to register. If space allows, students may register in the first week with permission of the instructor only. (This course will be retaught in 2011-2012.)
Readings and Required Texts
Syllabus is available on OCRA.
Books have been ordered at the Brown Bookstore, but for those wishing to purchase them on their own, I am providing the ISBN numbers. It is important to have the same edition if possible for ease of reference in class. Other course readings will be provided electronically.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Dream, Arden/Thomson Learning (ISBN 1903436605)
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Travels, Norton (ISBN 0393957241)
Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience, Oxford UP (0192810898)
Wordsworth and Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads, Penguin Classics (ISBN 0140424628)
Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr. Moreau, Dover Thrift (ISBN 0486290271)
Stoker, Bram. Dracula, Norton (ISBN 0393970124)
Carroll, Lewis. Alice\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Adventures in Wonderland,(Wordsworth Classics), NTC/Contemp Publishing (ISBN 1853260029)
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw, Dover Thrift Edition (ISBN 0486266842)
Additional Meetings/Labs
This course meets twice weekly as a lecture, with one smaller discussion section each week.