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ENGL 231

Special Topics in Genre I

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Fall 2026 · Special Topics in Genre I — Adventure Fiction

Topics

  • Victorian adventure fiction
  • exploration and colonial conquest
  • imperial expansion
  • capitalism
  • race, gender and class.

Readings

  • Rider Haggard’s She: A History of Adventure; Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth; R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island; James De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder; **Subject to change**
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