Legacy Course Catalog
ENGL 649V - Late-Victorian London
| Effectivity: | 08/20/2007 - 12/15/2007 @ Purdue West Lafayette Traditional |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Instructional Types: | Lec |
| Usually Offered: | fal spr sum |
| Short Title: | Late-Victorian London |
| Description: | What does the city of London, as space, idea, and metaphor, have to do with the writing produced "there"? English 649 takes you to London at the turn of the nineteenth century, when the dazzling center of the British literary world was fast becoming the rotten core of a decaying empire and ground zero for a major case of fin-de-siecle panic. Addressing material from both sides of the century divide, we will consider how the "city of dreadful night" came to construct and to be constructed by the fictions written in and about it. Essentially, this is a course on the mutually productive relationship that exists among people, urban space, and literary (or not-so-literary) texts. Alongside literature of the period (mostly novels, but including poetry and drama), we'll consider material culture of many kinds (e.g. streets, buildings, maps) and the traces of more ephemeral urban performances (festivals, parades, protests, etc.). We'll also prowl through fin-de-siecle urban and literary theory, with a significant foray into 21st-century theory and criticism. Plan on lots of reading, frequent presentations, and the production of a significant piece of writing at the end of the semester. If no vacation, this course should at least be a real trip. |
| School: | College Of Liberal Arts |
| Department: | English |
| Credit By Exam: | NO |
| Repeatable Flag: | YES |
| Temporary Flag: | YES |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
