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ENGL 300 is a research-intensive course that offers English majors the opportunity to examine a critical issue current in the discipline of English studies and to participate in a rigorous exchange about this issue with their peers. Complete course description here: http://catalog.coastal.edu/

In this section of ENGL 300, we are going to probe the idea of originality, specifically by investigating and discussing intramedial (one medium) and intermedial (two or more media) literary allusion, adaptation, and appropriation. Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Invite-Only Dinner Party/Gala Dinner Party (created by Shipwrecked Comedy and produced by Funny or Die) provides the framework for this course. In the series, Poe invites over to dinner an assortment of notable Victorian-era authors, including Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, and George Eliot. We will first read the literature of several of the authors featured in the web series and then watch the murder mystery web series before finally reading a “cannot be named until the mystery is solved” text. Part of the fun is that in order to understand the jokes and solve the crime, you must first know the literature! We will also be leveraging The COVE (The Central Online Victorian Educator), which is a scholar-driven open-access platform, to publish short, weekly, multimodal writing assignments.

Frankenstein, Volume 1
Frankenstein, Volume 2
Frankenstein, Volume 3

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Posted by Deja Barnes on Monday, October 19, 2020 - 03:26

During the 1890s, there was a time of economic depression in the year 1893. This was caused by the 1890 Sherman Silver Purchase Act which required the United States government to purchase 4.5 million onces of silver every month at market price, purchased with a new issue of treasury notes and minted into dollar coins, both of which could be redeemed for gold from the U.S. Treasury. The Act also required the Treasury to value gold at sixteen times that of silver by law. By doing this, America was seen as dependent and the country's financial integretity was questioned because it needed large amounts of gold to meet any of its needed obligations. The price of silver also continued to decline which caused mines to close, forcing some men out of work while those who stayed recieved crucial pay cuts. The Panic of 1893 caused many American people to lose their howmes and savings forcing them to move out of the States.

Americans. They're everywhere. They keep coming to England...

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Posted by Kate Oestreich on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 - 09:49

See "Adding Timeline and Map Entries" on "The COVE" Moodle tile.

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Posted by Kate Oestreich on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 - 09:47

See "Adding Timeline and Map Entries" on "The COVE" Moodle tile.

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Posted by donovan moore on Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 09:24

Victorian England is the place where Sir Humphry Davy spent the vast majority of his life. 

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