ENGL 226 - Victorian Crime, Mystery, and Detective Fiction

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
This course explores Victorian fiction featuring criminals, mysteries, police, and detectives. In addition to issues of genre and character, these texts will allow us to analyze representations of race, space, class, gender, sexuality, empire, and disability through specific themes including sexuality and queer detectives; misogyny, mermaids, and female insanity; scientific racism, anthropometrics, and racial profiling; fears of mutiny and reverse colonization; Jews, Indians, and Street Arabs; servants, disability, and the Victorian home; slumming, social transvestism, and the London Underworld. Well read Sherlock Holmes stories, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dickenss The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and lots more. British, 1700-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section, “200-Level Courses.”