Welcome to our class blog for British Literature from 1800, "Monsters and Madmen." This course charts the
evolution of ‘British’ literature from the explosion of the Romantic/Gothic
movement, through the haunted decades of Victorianism, and to the shell-shocked
ruins of the twentieth century. Just as technology was rapidly changing the
face of modern life, so, too, literature was undergoing a severe metamorphosis
that would forever change what we read—and how we read it. This exciting period
of literature gave birth not only to Horror and Fantasy literature, but also
Science Fiction, as writers struggled to find stories and metaphors to mirror
the rapidly changing (and decaying) state of the British empire. Our class will chart these changes through three
novels and numerous works of poetry, as well as the artworks of the period,
which help us ‘see’ the inner landscapes of the books themselves. Not
everything we read will be horrific…but I promise you, most of it will!Be sure to buy the books for this course as soon as possible; we'll be starting with English Romantic Poetry this week! E-mail me with any questions or concerns at jgrasso@ecok.edu. See you in class!
NOTE: The posts below this one are from my summer course and many earlier British lit courses, so you don't have to worry about them. This is not your work nor will it reflect the work I assign in our class this semester.
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