READING LIST FOR MICHAEL’S GROUPS, ENL1013M, 2018

These are the main texts we will be dealing with (not necessarily in this order) so please make sure you have obtained copies and read them in advance. A schedule of the seminars will be released shortly on Blackboard.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Conan Doyle

King Solomon’s Mines, Rider Haggard

Dracula, Bram Stoker

The War of the Worlds, H G Wells

Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome

The Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith

Peter Pan, J M Barrie

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

The Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen (in the Dover Thrift edition)

Poems: “Convergence of the Twain” by Thomas Hardy; “Cargoes” by John Masefield

The following short podcasts are available on YouTube: “Dracula As The Jew”; “Peter Pan And The Mother Lode”; Three Men In A Boat: A Microlecture”; “An Air That Kills: Housman’s Blue Remembered Hills”; “Dowson’s Cynara: A Microlecture”. These are at English Readings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYJz11iRqn9CJMh4Zr7DLlA