READINGS

UPDATED May 2, 2018

 

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

Sean’sGothicClass-Shirley_Jackson’s_American_Gothic_Hattenhauer

 

Katherine Dunn’s “The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her Teeth”

Dunn-The Nuclear Family-2

 

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti:

Goblin Market

 

Queer Theory:

1. Michel Foucault:

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2. From The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory:

JHGuide-Queer-Theory

3. From Purdue OWL:  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/12/

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

http://poestories.com/print/houseofusher

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Homesickness Handout:

Scanlan-Definition-Homesickness-2015

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Vidler’s The Architectural Uncanny:

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Graphic Novel/Comics

Edward Gorey, The Iron Tonic, 1969

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Sarah Nelson: Vampire Phantasm and Daniel

http://www.vermillionworks.com/vp/?p=125

Bobby Crosby and Chris Crosby, Illustrated by Owen Gieni: Last Blood

http://lastblood.keenspot.com/

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Freud’s “The Uncanny”

Sigmund Freud-The Uncanny

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Here is the handout on Royle’s version of The Uncanny:

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Prof. Scanlan’s handout on Ethics: Ethics Primer–Gothic Literature

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Here is the handout on Todorov’s the fantastic:

The-Fantastic_Todorov_gothicLiterature

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New Additions:

 

William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/wf_rose.html

 

1. Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/younggoodmanbrown.html

2. Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/poe/telltale.html

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

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/375/375-h/375-h.htm

4. Edith Wharton’s “Afterward”

https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/163603/Afterward%20-%20Edith%20Wharton.pdf?sequence=1

5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

http://readinenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/THE-YELLOW-WALLPAPER.pdf

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

 

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

http://www.english307formsofmodernshortstory.web.unc.edu/files/2014/03/enormous_radio-by-John-Cheever.pdf

** A short interpretation of Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio”:

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Gothic Examples: Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley

Radcliffe_and_Shelley_Examples

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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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Poe’s “The Black Cat”:

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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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Dr. Jekyll Transformations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde: See 13:00 to about 17:30

 

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