Syllabus: Nineteenth-Century Gothic

This is the preliminary syllabus for next semester's MA-level Gothic course, which covers the entire nineteenth century.  I've taught both early and Victorian Gothic at the undergraduate level, but this is my first go with graduate students. Still working on what to assign from the scholarship in the field.  Also, Mrs. Oliphant should get a look-in somewhere (probably with Braddon, Broughton, and Riddell).  Hound appears at the end as a nice late-Victorian wink at the whole genre (along with "The Canterville Ghost," a story that allows you to play "pin the tail on the trope").  I confess that I teach Le Fanu's "An Account..." whenever possible.

Incidentally, I do hope that these e-texts refrain from vanishing, as e-texts so aggravatingly have a habit of doing.   

1/25     Introduction

            Gottfried Bürger, “Lenora” (http://www.rc.umd.edu/rchs/reader/lenora.html); Walter Scott, “William and Helen” (http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/poetry/apology/text.html#wh)

2/1       George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred (http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Byron/manfredt.html);   John Polidori, The Vampyre   (https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/polidori/john/vampyre/)

2/8       Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

2/15     James Hogg, Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

2/22     Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

2/29     Charles Dickens, The Complete Ghost Stories

3/7       Elizabeth Gaskell, Gothic Tales

MIDTERM BREAK

3/21     Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla, “An Account of Some Strange Disturbances on Aungier Street,” “Mr. Justice Harbottle,” “Schalken the Painter,” “Green Tea,” “An            Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House”

3/28     Mary Elizabeth Braddon, “At Chrighton Abbey” (https://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/ghost-stories-braddon.html), “Good Lady Ducayne”             (http://www.duluth.umn.edu/~csigler/PDF%20files/braddon_ducayne.pdf), “The Cold Embrace” (http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/coldembr.htm); Rhoda Broughton, “The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth,” “Behold, it Was a Dream” (http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605281h.html); Charlotte Riddell, “The Open Door,” “Nut Bush Farm” (https://gothictexts.wordpress.com/tag/nut-bush-farm/)

4/4       Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, “The Beach of Falesá” (https://archive.org/details/islandnightsente00stevrich); Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom ‘Rickshaw” (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2806/2806-h/2806-  h.htm#link2H_4_0003);

4/11     Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, “The Canterville Ghost” (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14522/14522-h/14522-h.htm)

4/18     Bram Stoker, Dracula

4/25     Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles