Type of Credit: Elective
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Number of Students
This course examines the development of Gothic fiction from the mid-18th-century to the early Victorian period. The eight decades separating Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) and Charlotte Brontё’s Jane Eyre (1847) witness a proliferation of novels with strong Gothic character. Together they consolidate and complicate the meaning of the Gothic. We will read several scholarly essays about the Gothic and discuss intriguing passages from seven major texts in the history of British Gothic fiction.
能力項目說明
Students are trained in the skills of close reading. They will also learn how to use secondary criticism intelligently. The final goal is to produce a well-organised and original research paper.
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週次 |
課程內容與指定閱讀 |
教學活動與課前、 課後作業 |
學生學習投入時間 （含課堂教學時數） |
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Week 1 September 13th |
Introduction |
Please finish reading Dale Townshend’s essay ‘Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination’ before coming to class After class: read Carol Margaret Davison’s essay ‘Gothic and the language of terror’ |
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Week 2 September 20th |
Davison’s essay ‘Gothic and the language of terror’ |
After class: read excerpts from Sarah Kareem’s book Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder |
3+ 9 hours |
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Week 3 September 27th |
Excerpts from Kareem’s book |
After class: read a chapter of Angela Wright’s book Gothic Fiction |
3+ 9 hours |
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Week 4 October 4th |
A chapter of Wright’s book |
After class: read a chapter of George Haggerty’s book Queer Gothic |
3+ 9 hours |
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Week 5 October 11th |
A chapter of Haggerty’s book |
After class: read a chapter of Steven Bruhm’s book Gothic Bodies: the Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction |
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Week 6 October 18th |
A chapter of Bruhm’s book |
After class: Read Joseph Crawford’s essay : ‘Every Night, The Same Routine’: Recurring Nightmares and the Repetition Compulsion in Gothic Fiction |
3+ 9 hours |
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Week 7 October 25th |
Crawford’s essay |
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3+ 9 hours |
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Week 8 November 1st |
The Castle of Otranto |
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3+ 9 hours |
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Week 9 November 8th |
The Monk |
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3+ 9 hours |
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Week 10 November 15st |
The Italian |
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3+ 9 hours |
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Week 11 November 22nd |
Northanger Abbey |
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3+ 9 hours |
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Week 12 November 29th |
Frankenstein |
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3+ 9 hours |
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Week 13 December 6th |
Wuthering Heights |
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3+ 9 hours |
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Week 14 December 13th |
Jane Eyre |
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3+ 9 hours |
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Week 15 December 20th |
Individual supervision: discussing research topics with students |
After class: prepare for the mini-conference or write your term paper |
3+ 9 hours |
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Week 16 December 27th |
Mini-conference: present your research to the entire class and respond to comments from your friends |
After class: writing your term paper |
3+ 9 hours |
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Week 17 January 5th |
Writing your term paper |
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Week 18 January 12th |
Writing your term paper; term paper due |
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Grading policies:
Presentation and weekly contributions 20%
Mini-conference presentation 10%
Final term paper 70%