Course Schedule

This is a list of the major assignments for the course. It may be revised as dictated by the needs of the class. Please see “Additional Readings” for alternate reading assignment options.

Students are responsible for completing all assigned reading before each class meeting.

Texts:

• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. 1892. Accessed at Project Gutenberg.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories. 1846. Accessed at Project Gutenberg.
• Poe, Edgar Allan. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 2. Accessed at Project Gutenberg.
• Poe, Edgar Allan. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 4. Accessed at Project Gutenberg.
• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus. 1818. Accessed at Project Gutenberg.
• Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 1886. Accessed at Project Gutenberg.
• Stoker, Bram. Dracula. 1897. Accessed at Project Gutenberg.
• Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. 1764. Accessed at Project Gutenberg.

Week 1

• Login to your OpenLab account and follow these instructions to join this course
• Download The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Haunted, Subterranean, Confined

Week 2

• The Castle of Otranto, Preface and Chapters 1-2

• Critical Response Blog 1

Week 3

• The Castle of Otranto, Chapters 3-5

Sublime, Queer, Uncanny

Week 4

• Frankenstein, Preface, Letters, and Volume I

Week 5

• Frankenstein, Volume II (Chapter 1-9)

• Frankenstein, Volume III (Chapters 1-7) and Letters (finish)
• Critical Response Blog 2

Week 6

• Dracula, Chapters 1-7

• Dracula, Chapters 8-14
• Critical Response Blog 3

Week 7

• Dracula, Chapters 15-21
• Critical Response Blog 4

Week 8

• Dracula, Chapters 22-27 (finish)

• Critical Response Blog 5

Week 9

• Essay 1 Draft Workshop

• Essay 1 Due

Wilderness, Gloom, Madness

Week 10

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Story of the Door-Incident of the Letter

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Incident of Dr. Lanyon-end
• Critical Response Blog 6

Week 11

• Poe, “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether”
• Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher“

• Critical Response Blog 7

Week 12

• Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
• Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”

• Critical Response Blog 8

21st Century Gothic (Student-Generated Unit)

For the assignment prompt, visit “21st Century Gothic”

Week 13

• Student Choice
• Critical Response Blog 9

Week 14

• Essay 2 Draft Workshop
• Critical Response Blog 10

Week 15

• Essay 2 Due

Week 16

For the assignment prompt, visit “Gothic Spaces Presentation“

• Gothic Spaces Group Presentations

Week 17 and Finals

• Gothic Spaces Group Presentations

• Final Exam

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