Topics in the Novel: Adventure Fiction
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MWF 10
Cancelled
Can hatred be an expression of love? Can politics be a game? Can history take the form of a novel? These are just some of the questions to which adventure fiction addresses itself. Emerging into prominence in the late nineteenth century, the period of increasing imperial competition among the Great Powers of Europe, adventure fiction establishes itself in cultural opposition to mainstream Victorian domestic fiction. In this course, we will be reading novels which span the range of the adventure tradition in the period from 1840 to World War I. The books we will be reading include Dumas' *Three Musketeers*, Stevenson's *Master of Ballantrae*, Rider Haggard's *She*, Twain's *Huck Finn*, Wells' *Island of Dr. Moreau*, Conrad's *Lord Jim*, Kipling's *Kim*, and T. E. Lawrence's *Seven Pillars of Wisdom*. Requirements include 4 short critical papers.
updated 2006-04-10
