Sunday, January 13, 2013
Course description
Enlightenment
and modernity have conventionally marked the end of an era ripe with
superstition, mysticism, and magic. However, with rise of objective, empiricist
science in Britain came an outpouring literature concerned with the
unexplainable and strange. From Coleridge’s The
Ancyent Marinere to Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland to Carter’s “The
Bloody Chamber,” the literature of modernity is littered with impossible
settings, ghostly hauntings, unaccountable transformations, and characters
whose magnetic power fascinates and draws you into their tales. This course
will survey a broad swath of British literature from the late-eighteenth to the
early twentieth century, concentrating on how and why authors chose to write
about the fantastic and fabulous in an age of rationality.
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