English 206: British Literature from 1800

When The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner , was published in 1719, it was received by many as a...

Postcolonial literature is a very broad category; it includes African writers such as Tsitsi Dangarembga , Ama Ata Aidoo , Wole Soyinka ,...

Modernism has always, it seems, had a bit of a gender problem. For decades, there was a critical double-standard that relegated women -- ...

One of the little ironies of twentieth-century 'British' literature is that most of the best of it was written by people who were...

Since its first publication in 1886, "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" has never been out of print. Stage adaptations b...

The Victorian era remains in many ways the most curious of our precursors, seeming almost a phantasmic preview of so many ideas, issues, an...

All of us know the story of Frankenstein -- or do we? Some of our collective memories come from the James Whale  film  of 1931, which in...