ENGL3814 · English
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
Fulfills the pre-1900 requirement. This course explores a form popularized in the nineteenth-century but familiar to us today: the series. Most Victorian novels were published in weekly or monthly parts over long stretches of time, and Victorian readers kept track of long novels over a period of years in addition to reading completed works in a single sitting. Serialized television and bingeable shows will help us contextualize the series in our contemporary moment. Cliffhangers, recurring characters, marketing, and the reader and viewers relationship to the fictional world will be some of our objects of study as we look closely at the form of the fictional series across media.
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4.8 / 5
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Challenge
4.7 / 5
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Attendance
4.8 / 5
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Assignments
4.7 / 5
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Weekly effort
~5
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Fall 2024
1 section