COURSE OUTLINE: The course offers a specialized study of the Victorian Short Story in relation to the Gothic mode. It will introduce students to the form as it was practiced in Great Britain by great masters of literature such as Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde and H.G.Wells. This course highlights the fact that the Gothic short story was an important and flourishing literary genre in the Victorian period.
Overview
Syllabus
H.G. WELLS "THE RED ROOM" - Close Reading And Its Ideological Implications.
H.G. WELLS "THE RED ROOM" - Victorian Gothic.
H.G. WELLS "THE RED ROOM" - Close Reading And Its Implications.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE "The Red-Headed League" - Summary and Interview of the Author.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - The Red-Headed League - III.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - The Red-Headed League - II.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - The Red-Headed League - I.
MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY - Lecture Summary and Comparison.
RUDYARD KIPLING - Close reading for implications of the imperial Gothic - II.
RUDYARD KIPLING 'My own true ghost story' - Close reading for implications of the imperial Gothic.
IMPERIAL GOTHIC - Major Characteristics.
RUDYARD KIPLING - My own true ghost story.
CHARLES DICKENS 'THE HAUNTED SIGNAL MAN' Lecture Summary and Character Sketches.
CHARLES DICKENS 'THE SIGNAL - MAN' -III - Close reading and the anxieties of the age.
CHARLES DICKENS 'THE SIGNAL - MAN' -II - Close reading and the anxieties of the age.
CHARLES DICKENS 'THE SIGNAL - MAN' - Close reading and the anxieties of the age.
THE GOTHIC - Literary Genre.
Charles Dickens 'The Signal Man': Close Reading and the Anxieties of the Age- IV.
Arthur Conan Doyle 'The Red-Headed League': A Conversation.
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