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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 22327
Face-to-Face 51-75% of time
St Paul: John Roach Center 222
Online
Vampires, ghosts, murders, madness, living portraits, dungeons, secret passageways, sexual deviance, forbidden romance, and hysteria. The sensationalism of the Gothic novel made it one of the most popular -- and controversial -- genres in British literary history. This course will begin with the roots of the Gothic novel in the late eighteenth century and will then trace the development and transformation of gothicism over the course of the nineteenth century. Following current scholarship, we will pose questions about belief in the supernatural, representations of violence, the significance of fantasy and fear, and the role of gender, race, class, and sexuality in the literature of terror. Course texts will include Horace Walpole's THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO, Matthew Lewis's THE MONK, Jane Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY, and Bram Stoker's DRACULA. Novels will be supplemented with readings in recent theory and criticism as well as a selection of cultural materials, including nineteenth-century poetry, journalism, and visual arts. This course will meet in class for the first 10 weeks, followed by 3 weeks of independent study and advising, and a final presentation week at the end of the semester. This course satisfies the early literature distribution requirement and counts as a 600-level course.
3 Credits