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ENGL 455, Section 00U: Edith Wharton
MWF 10:00 – 11:30
Professor Dale Bauer
Meets 11-Mar-13 – 01-May-13

This class will focus on major U.S. author Edith Wharton (1862-1937), whose 19 novels and novellas and 11 short story collections created a career devoted to what one of her biographers calls “the social chronicler of her age.” We will start with her short stories: some about love and romance (“Roman Fever”), some about personal careers (“The Other Two”), and others about social comedy (“Xingu”). Over the course of the semester, we will read a few of her most famous novels, including The House of Mirth (1905), from her illustrious career. Many films have been based on her works, and we will be comparing a few of them to the literary works themselves. Assignments for this course will include the following: short responses to Wharton’s writing, a focused paper on the cultural history (5 pages), a midterm and a final.

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ENGL 274, Section D: Serial Vampire
TR 11:00 – 1:15
Professor Lauren Goodlad
Meets 11-Mar-13 – 01-May-13

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Spring 2013 for a UIUC: Literature and the Arts course

This brief survey of modern vampire fiction begins with John Polidori’s “The Vampyre: A Tale” (1819) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, continues into the postwar era with Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954), extends to the late twentieth century with Poppy Z. Brite’s goth-inspired Lost Souls (1993), and concludes with two recent entries to vampire lore: John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In (2004) and Rachel Caine’s Glass Houses (2006), the first in the Morganville Vampires series.  Our main assignment for the class will be co-creation of a permanently archived digital object: an annotated version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) which we’ll assemble from our own reading, research, and discussion.