READINGS

Updated Dec 9, 2020

 

 

 

Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959):

jackson_-_the_haunting_of_hill_house

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Hattenhauer’s chapter on Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House:

Sean’sGothicClass-Shirley_Jackson’s_American_Gothic_Hattenhauer

 

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Paragraphs and The College Sentence:

Paragraphs-College-Sentence

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Ann Radcliffe on Terror and Horror:

Ann-Radcliffe-Terror and Horror

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STANDARD ESSAY FORMAT:

Standard-Journal-Essay-Format (1)

 

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Queer Theory:

From The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory:

JHGuide-Queer-Theory

 

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From Nick Groom’s The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (2012)

Nick-Groom-TheGothic-Introduction

 

GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture

Gothic Slides (Retrieved from Matt Coleman’s Architecture Class: http://www.slideshare.net/colemanma/avi3m-class-architectural-tile-handouts?from_action=save)

Slide 1: Gothic-archit-1

Slide 2: Gothic-Archit-2

Chicago Gothic Revival: http://www.architecture.org/architecture-chicago/visual-dictionary/entry/gothic-revival/

New York Gothic Revival: http://nyc-architecture.com/STYLES/STY-GothicRevival.htm

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Blade #1 and #2 (2009) by Marc Guggenheim:

Blade-2009-Marvel

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Graphic Novel version of “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Matthew K. Manning and Jim Jimenz:

FallofHouseofUsher-GraphicNovel-ENG3407

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Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”:

http://poestories.com/print/houseofusher

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Gothic Homesickness Handout:

Scanlan-Definition-GothicHomesickness-2020

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Vidler’s The Architectural Uncanny:

Anthony-Vidler-The-Architectural-Uncanny

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Graphic Novel/Comics

Jonathan Wilson’s “How to Read a Graphic Novel or Comic Strip”

How to Read a Graphic Novel or Comic Strip

 

Edward Gorey, The Iron Tonic, 1969

Gorey-The-Iron-Tonic_f2011

 

 

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Criticisms and Theories:

 

Freud’s “The Uncanny”

Sigmund Freud-The Uncanny

 

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Here is the handout on Todorov’s the fantastic:

The-Fantastic_Todorov_gothicLiterature

 

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Before Midterm:

 

Ralph Ellison’s “Prologue to Invisible Man” (1952)

http://culture.vir2novations.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ellison_invman_excerpt.pdf

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”

Young-Goodman-Brown-Gothic

 

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Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge”

An Occurrence at Owl Creek

 

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Gilman_Yellow_Wallpaper.pdf

https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/163728/The%20Veldt%20-%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

 

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John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio” (published 1953)

http://bit.ly/34I3BZh

 

 

 

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/207/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/

 

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Gothic Examples: Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley

Radcliffe_and_Shelley_Examples

 

New Yorker Cartoon:

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Preface to Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto:

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/155/the-castle-of-otranto/2728/preface-to-the-first-edition/

 

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“Approaching the Gothic Tradition” by David Stevens; from the book The Gothic Tradition (2000)

David Stevens-Gothic Tradition

 

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“Chapter One: What is American Gothic?” by Alan Lloyd-Smith; from the book American Gothic: An Introduction (2004)

Lloyd-Smith Gothic Introduction

 

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New: About Jackson’s “The Lottery”:

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lottery-letters

 

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948:

The-Lottery-1948

 

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GOTHIC DEFINITIONS:

Gothic Definitions

 

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Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat”: (improved version)

Black_Cat

 

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Prof. Scanlan’s 5-Part Reading Tool:

5-Part-Reading-Tool-Scanlan