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Writing About Literature

Subject: Writing

Art: Gustave Doré, Gustave Doré, Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“, 1866.…, 1866 · Public domain

Instructor: Dr. Wyn Kelley
Term: Fall 2010
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 2 readings · 3 other files · 3 web pages
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This course’s cited books, in our reading lists: Frankenstein · Frankenstein · The Importance of Being Earnest, and Other Plays · Benito Cereno

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Lecture 2: Shelley, M. S. Frankenstein . Preface, and preface to 1831 edition. Vol. I. New York, NY: Norton, 1995. ISBN: 9780393964585.

Lecture 3: Shelley, M. S. Frankenstein . Vol. II. New York, NY: Norton, 1995. ISBN: 9780393964585.

Lecture 4: Shelley, M. S. Frankenstein . Vol. III. New York, NY: Norton, 1995. ISBN: 9780393964585.

Lecture 7: Sources and Contexts for Frankenstein : Reports (5 minutes) on Prometheus Myth (Hesiod’s Theogony, Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound), Scientists (Erasmus Darwin, Luigi Galvani, Humphrey Davy), and Explorers (James Cook).

Lecture 8: Sources and Contexts for Frankenstein : Reports on Creature’s reading list (Plutarch’s Lives, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther).

Lecture 9: Sources and Contexts for Frankenstein : Reports on Romantic Poets (Shelley, Byron, Coleridge) and the Sublime (Burke).

Lecture 10: Sources and Contexts for Frankenstein : Philosophy (John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft).

Lecture 12: Frankenstein Adaptations: Early Silent Film Branagh, Kenneth. Frankenstein . 1994

Lecture 13: Frankenstein Adaptations: Early Silent Film (cont.)

Lecture 16: Melville, H. Benito Cereno . Boston, MA: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2006. ISBN: 9780312452421.

Lecture 17: Melville, H. Benito Cereno . Boston, MA: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2006. ISBN:9780312452421. (cont.)

Lecture 18: Melville, H. Benito Cereno . Boston, MA: Bedford/Saint Martin’s, 2006. ISBN: 9780312452421. (cont.)

Lecture 21: Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest, and Other Plays . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780199535972.

Lecture 22: Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest, and Other Plays . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780199535972. (cont.) Parker, Oliver. The Importance of Being Earnest . 2002

Lecture 23: Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home . Boston, MA: Mariner’s Books, 2007. ISBN: 9780618871711.

Lecture 24: Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home . Boston, MA: Mariner’s Books, 2007. ISBN: 9780618871711. (cont.)