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Exploring connections between Gothic monstrosity and psychological realism, this course investigates an exciting range of texts and contexts from the long nineteenth century. Focusing on novels from 1789-1914, with some attention to other genres and adaptations, we ask what it means to be human, and how cultural anxieties and scientific/technological developments have affected literature (and vice versa). From doubling to degeneration, madness to the metropolis, villain to vampire, empire to the threat of extinction, we examine the work of writers such as Mary Shelley, Dickens, Poe, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Bram Stoker and H.G. Wells.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Old Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Exploring connections between Gothic monstrosity and psychological realism, this course gives us the opportunity to investigate an exciting range of texts and contexts from the long nineteenth century. Focusing primarily on novels from the period 1789 to 1914, with some attention to other genres (such as the short story) as well as neo-Victorian and twenty-first-century responses to or adaptations of the nineteenth-century Gothic, we will investigate the ways that cultural anxieties and scientific and technological developments have historically affected literature (and vice versa). What does it mean to be human? How has this question been raised within the Gothic and realist traditions at different cultural moments? What sorts of monsters terrify or haunt us and how do they evolve to keep pace with the gaps in our certainties? From doubling to degeneration, madness to the metropolis, villain to vampire, empire to the threat of extinction, this course examines the work of writers such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Bram Stoker and H.G. Wells.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
1st Attempt
Continuous assessment (100%) comprising:
Resit
There are no assessments for this course.
Verbal feedback will be given throughout seminar discussion. Formative and summative assessment will be provided via oral and written feedback on assessed work. Students will also be encouraged to engage in peer feedback and to discuss their progress with their tutor .
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