Non-Realist Writing Co-ordinator: Dr Ailise Bulfin ([email protected]) This course will examine a major fictional tradition, concurrent with realism, and often understood as its shadow or unconscious form. ‘Non-realism’ is a capacious term, and our reading will cover a variety of genres and modes, from Gothic and supernatural fiction to science fiction and utopian (or dystopian) and apocalyptic tales. Throughout, attention will be given to the potential of non-realist fictional forms to imagine other worlds, or other versions of this world, and thus become a means of articulating alternative social and political aspirations. Week 1: Introduction Week 2: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) Week 3: Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) Week 4: Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) Week 5: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) Week 6: Saki [H. H. Munro], When William Came (1913) Week 7: Study Week Week 8: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) Week 9: John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (1951) Week 10: Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006) Week 11: Colson Whitehead, Zone One (2011) Week 12: Conclusion Selected further reading: Chris Baldick, In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity and Nineteenth-century Writing (OUP, 1988) John Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939 (London: Faber, 1992) I. F. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749 (OUP, 1992) W W Dixon, Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema (London: Wallflower, 2003) H Bruce Franklin, War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination (OUP, 1988) William Hughes and Andrew Smith (eds), The Victorian Gothic (Edinburgh: EUP, 2012) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (London: Harper Collins, 1994) Darryl Jones, Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (London: Arnold; and New York: OUP, 2002). Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing (New York: The New Press, 2001) Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005) Kim Newman, Millennium Movies: End of the World Cinema (London: Titan, 1999) John S Partington, Building Cosmopolis: The Political thought of H G Wells (London: Ashgate, 2003) Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol. 1 (London: Routledge, 2002) David Punter, The Literature of Terror, 2 vols (London: Longman, 1996) Jerome F Shapiro, Atomic Bomb Cinema (London: Routledge: 2002) David J Skal, Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture (New York: Norton, 1999) Andrew Smith, Gothic Literature, 2nd edn (Edinburgh: EUP, 2013) Brian Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950 (London: Fourth Estate, 1985) Sara Wasson and Emily Alder (eds) Gothic Science Fiction (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011)