This course addresses the dark side of the imagination: monsters, vampires, hauntings and demons. It opens students to the history and genealogy of the fascination with excess, the supernatural, and horror, tracing the development of a genre from its 18th- century inception through to its late bloom in the Victorian era; leaving it to students to pursue through their pick of twentieth- and twenty-first gothic. Authors studied include Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, the Marquis de Sade, James Hogg, R.L. Stevenson, Henry James, and Bram Stoker. The course also attends to visual representations of gothic in painting, ballet, television, and film.
Course Master
Credits
4 credits
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Term
Fall 2020
Discipline
CL (Comparative Literature)
Type
Regular
Can be taken twice for credit?
Off
Level
Undergraduate
CAMS ID
41357
Code
CL3054
Learning Outcomes
To learn about the pleasures and problematics of gothic literature.
To grasp methodologies appropriate to studying gothic literature.
To be able to articulate the continuities linking gothic fiction to other media in which gothic has flourished (painting, film, television).
To explain why gothic is still so alive today in the twenty-first century.
To develop an awareness of the different historical factors against which gothic has been reacting.
Name
GOTHIC, THE LITERATURE OF EXCESS
First Name
Daniel
Last Name
Gunn
Real name
Start Date
Tuesday, September 22 2020
End Date
Monday, December 21 2020
Start Month
September
Exam Date
Monday, December 21 2020 - 17:30
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