ENG 2273 - Detective and Mystery Fiction

Credits: 4
Whodunits, Howdunits, British Cozies, Hard Boiled Fiction, Locked-Room Mysteries, and Police Procedurals. Taking a historic approach, this course is a survey of detective fiction from its origins before Poe to the BBC’s wildly popular Sherlock. Students will explore the development of the genre and examine the cultural contexts within which these texts were written.

McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis