2018-2019 Academic Catalog 
    
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2018-2019 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ENGL 224H - Detective Fiction


Credits: 4
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
The seminar will study the origin of detective fiction and the cultural circumstances which made this genre possible and popular with the general reading public. Students will read a variety of detective narratives beginning with Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle and ending in the 21st century with Raymond Chandler and P.D. James, to name just a few.