Overview - Popular Literature

This is an outline of the entire course.

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1. Introduction to Popular Literature
1. Taking Classes on the Internet
2. Brief History of Popular Literature
3. Creating Canons
4. Cultural Implications
2. Gothic Fiction
1. Gothic Narrative Tradition
2. Begin with a Dream: Walpole's Castle
3. That High Forehead: Poe's Estate
4. An Absence of Affection: Jackson's Mansion
3. Mystery and Detective Fiction
1. Detection's Narrative Tradition
2. The Rationization of the Leisured: Poe's Bencolin
3. The Hard Boiled Detective: Chandler's Marlowe
4. Tough but Tender - The Contemporary Detective: Burke's Robiecheaux
4. Science Fiction
1. Science Fiction's Narrative Tradition
2. Going too far: Shelley's Frankenstein
3. Society and Technology: Asimov's I, Robot
4. Cyberspace and Cyberpeople: Gibson's Neuromancer
5. Western Fiction
1. Western Fiction's Narrative Tradition
2. Arizona as Backdrop: Owen Wister's The Virginian
3. Family and Frontier: L'amour's Utah Blaine
4. A Different Perspective on the West: McMurty's Anything for Billy

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