Set Texts: Eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature 9th Edition: Vol D. The Romantic Period. and Stillinger. W. W. Norton & Co. New York and London, 2012. John Polidori, in ed. Robert The Vampyre, The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre, Morrison and Chris Baldick, Oxford World Classics (Oxford: OUP, 2008) Mary Shelley, 1818 Text, ed. Marilyn Butler, Oxford Classics (Oxford: Frankenstein, OUP, 1993) Thomas de Quincey, ed. Barry Milligan Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003). Vacation Reading: I’d advise you to read the prose works over the summer. Please do make sure to read the 1818 text of Frankenstein For further information, please contact Prof Sharon Ruston County Main B92 Course Outline Gothic’, as Nick Groom argues, not simply a reaction to the Enlightenment, and ‘[T]he ‘was the rise of the Gothic novel is part of a longer history’ (Groom, 2012, p.xiv). In coining the term Premodern Gothic, this innovative half-unit considers some of the ways in which a range of generically diverse texts produced in England between c.1450 and 1600 engage with Gothic tropes and sensibilities - e.g. ghosts, vampires, castles, darkness, magic, terror and wonder - before rise of the Gothic novel’. ‘the Assessment 1 x 1,000-word essay (20%) 1 x 3,500 word essay (80%) Course Structure Week 11: Introduction: Working back from the Gothic novel: Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto Week 12: Shakespeare’s Goths: Titus Andronicus Week 13: Staging the Renaissance Gothic: Hamlet Week 14: Folklore, Monks and Martyrs: Medieval Ghost Stories Week 15: Supernatural Spaces: Sir Gawain and the Knight Week 16: Independent Week
Set Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature 9th Edition: Vol D. The Romantic Period. Eds. and Stillinger. W. W. Norton & Co. New York and London, 2012. John Polidori, The Vampyre, in The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre, ed. Robert Morrison and Chris Baldick, Oxford World Classics (Oxford: OUP, 2008) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818 Text, ed. Marilyn Butler, Oxford Classics (Oxford: OUP, 1993) Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, ed. Barry Milligan (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003). Vacation Reading: I’d advise you to read the prose works over the summer. Please do make sure to read the 1818 text of Frankenstein For further information, please contact Prof Sharon Ruston County Main B92 Course Outline ‘[T]he Gothic’, as Nick Groom argues, ‘was not simply a reaction to the Enlightenment, and the rise of the Gothic novel is part of a longer history’ (Groom, 2012, p.xiv). In coining the term Premodern Gothic, this innovative half-unit considers some of the ways in which a range of generically diverse texts produced in England between c.1450 and 1600 engage with Gothic tropes and sensibilities - e.g. ghosts, vampires, castles, darkness, magic, terror and wonder - before ‘the rise of the Gothic novel’. Assessment 1 x 1,000-word essay (20%) 1 x 3,500 word essay (80%) Course Structure Week 11: Introduction: Working back from the Gothic novel: Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto Week 12: Shakespeare’s Goths: Titus Andronicus Week 13: Staging the Renaissance Gothic: Hamlet Week 14: Folklore, Monks and Martyrs: Medieval Ghost Stories Week 15: Supernatural Spaces: Sir Gawain and the Knight Week 16: Independent Week
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