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<p align="left" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Emerging in the eighteenth century, the gothic has been popular as a literary genre in English fiction. Looking briefly at its early forms, the seminar will explore twentieth-century versions and contemporary manifestations of the gothic. These include traditional literary genres such as the ghost story, fantasy and dystopia, as well as more recent ones such as the illness memoir and 'ecogothic'. We will discuss aesthetic concepts that continue to be relevant to the genre, such as 'the uncanny' and 'the grotesque', and motifs such as the 'revenant' and the 'shapeshifter'. Furthermore, we will analyse how categories such as gender, age and illness affect new developments of the gothic. </span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In preparation for the course, please read Mary Shelley's <i>Frankenstein</i> (1818; available in Oxford World's Classics) and William Styron's <i>Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness</i> (1990, available in Vintage Classics). All other shorter texts will be provided online.</span></p> |