Literature and Media

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This course will explore how shifts in media technologies have influenced the creation, transmission, and reception of literature. Topics might include: investigations of how the spread of printing presses led to the first newspapers in eighteenth-century London, with comparison to how newspapers look today; study of the importance of serial publication in magazines for nineteenth-century authors like Charles Dickens; and examinations of spy novels, detective fiction, and the rise of the paperback in the twentieth century before turning to the explosion of graphic novels in the twenty-first century.