to study in detail these writers’ works and to consider them within their historical, cultural and intellectual contexts. 1 x 1,000-word close reading exercise (20%); 1 x 3,500-word essay (80%). Assessment: Set Texts: Byron: ed. Jerome J. McGann (Oxford U.P., 2008) The Major Works, Percy Shelley: ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat (Norton, 2002) Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, Mary Shelley: ed. Maurice Hindle (Penguin, 1992) Frankenstein, ed. Morton D. Paley (Oxford World’s Classics, 1994) The Last Man, Vacation Reading: You might get started on Bryon’s the selected poems by The Giaour, Shelley we do in Week 3 (‘Mont Blanc’, to Intellectual Beauty’, ‘Hymn ‘Ozymandias’, ‘Ode to a Skylark’, Mask of Anarchy’, England in 1819’) and Mary Shelley’s ‘The ‘Sonnet: and Useful critical starting points would be: Marilyn Butler, Frankenstein The Last Man. (1979); Jerome McGann, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries Fiery Dust: Bryon’s Poetic (1968); Timothy Webb, (1977) and Anne Development Shelley: A Voice Not Understood Mellor, (1988). Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters For further information, see Prof Keith Hanley County Main B90 ENGL 371: Victorian Gothic 15 credit module (half unit) Term 2 Course Outline: In the Victorian period, the decaying castles, corrupt priests and ancestral curses that were so prominent in the first phase of the Gothic novel gave way to an increased emphasis on spectral and monstrous others: ghosts, witches, werewolves, vampires, mummies and other creatures of the night. The course will explore these phenomena in their historical, cultural and literary contexts, with particular focus on emerging discourses of gender, sexuality, colonialism and class. The course will pay special attention to visual aspects of the Gothic, examining book illustration, painting and photography from the period and their relationship with Gothic texts. Students will be asked to consider the relationship between newly emergent forms of modernity (from medical discourses to photography) and the preoccupation with history and the past that is a generic feature of the Gothic. Texts will
to study in detail these writers’ works and to consider them within their historical, cultural and intellectual contexts. Assessment: 1 x 1,000-word close reading exercise (20%); 1 x 3,500-word essay (80%). Set Texts: Byron: The Major Works, ed. Jerome J. McGann (Oxford U.P., 2008) Percy Shelley: Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat (Norton, 2002) Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, ed. Maurice Hindle (Penguin, 1992) The Last Man, ed. Morton D. Paley (Oxford World’s Classics, 1994) Vacation Reading: You might get started on Bryon’s The Giaour, the selected poems by Shelley we do in Week 3 (‘Mont Blanc’, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’, ‘Ozymandias’, ‘Ode to a Skylark’, ‘The Mask of Anarchy’, ‘Sonnet: England in 1819’) and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Last Man. Useful critical starting points would be: Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries (1979); Jerome McGann, Fiery Dust: Bryon’s Poetic Development (1968); Timothy Webb, Shelley: A Voice Not Understood (1977) and Anne Mellor, Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters (1988). For further information, see Prof Keith Hanley County Main B90 ENGL 371: Victorian Gothic 15 credit module (half unit) Term 2 Course Outline: In the Victorian period, the decaying castles, corrupt priests and ancestral curses that were so prominent in the first phase of the Gothic novel gave way to an increased emphasis on spectral and monstrous others: ghosts, witches, werewolves, vampires, mummies and other creatures of the night. The course will explore these phenomena in their historical, cultural and literary contexts, with particular focus on emerging discourses of gender, sexuality, colonialism and class. The course will pay special attention to visual aspects of the Gothic, examining book illustration, painting and photography from the period and their relationship with Gothic texts. Students will be asked to consider the relationship between newly emergent forms of modernity (from medical discourses to photography) and the preoccupation with history and the past that is a generic feature of the Gothic. Texts will