Dr. Castellano 3 credits

This survey of British literature from 1798 to the present will begin by examining Romantic and Gothic themes in Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and DeQuincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater.  The subject of the import of opium from the East leads us into an exploration of British imperialism and its consequences in the Victorian and Modernist fictions of Rossetti, Wells, Conrad, and Orwell.  The final section of the course focuses on the imagination of postcolonial spaces and animal affinities in contemporary poetry and fiction.
Required Course Texts:
Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (Riverside Edition, 0618107320)

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