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MAIS 752: Bride of the Walking Undead Report a Broken Link

Foundation

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818 edition). Edited by Stuart Curran. Romantic Circles, U of Maryland.  

Module 1

Primary Assigned Readings
Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto (1760). Project Gutenberg, 2012.
Freud, Sigmund. “The ‘Uncanny’.” The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XVII (1917-1919): An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, 217-256. 
Seconday Assigned Readings
Bürger, Gottfried. “Lenora” (1773), translator unknown, The Monthly Magazine, 1796.
Moretti, Franco. “Dialectic of Fear.” New Left Review, vol. 1, no. 136, 1982.
Lauro, Sarah Juliet. “Chapter 1: Slavery and Slave Rebellion: The (Pre)History of the Zombi/e.” The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death. Rutgers University Press, 2015, pp. 27-63.
Goethe, “The Bride of Corinth” (1797), translated by William Edmondstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin, 1859, reprinted in The Works of J.W. von Goethe, vol. 9, edited by Nathan Haskell et al,1923. Wikisource. 

Module 2

Primary Assigned Readings
McCutcheon, Mark. Chapter 2, Refocusing Adaptation Studies, in The Medium is the Monster, Athabasca University Press, 2018.
Le Fanu, Sheridan. Carmilla (1872). University of Adelaide eBooks, 2014.
McNally, David. “Introduction”; “‘As if by love possessed’: vampire-capital and the labouring body”; and “Zombie-labour and the ‘monstrous outrages’ of capital.” Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. Haymarket, 2012, pp. 1-16; 132-48.   
Secondary Assigned Readings
Southey, Robert. “The Eighth Book,” from Thalaba The Destroyer (1797), Project Gutenberg. 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Christabel” (1816). Poetry Foundation. 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1834). Poetry Foundation, 2018.
Byron [George Gordon]. Lines 675-788 and notes 55-56 from “The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale” (1813). Internet Archive.
Poe, Edgar Allan. “Ligeia” (1838). University of Adelaide eBooks, 2014. 
Bierce, Ambrose. “The Death of Halpin Frayser” (1891). University of Adelaide eBooks, 2014. 
Polidori, John. The Vampyre; A Tale (1819). Project Gutenberg, 2004.
Van Camp, R. (2013). On the Wings of This Prayer. In  S. Moreno-Garcia (Ed.). Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction,  pp. 164-173. Exile

Module 3

Stoker, Bram. Dracula (1899). Project Gutenberg, 2013.
Rice, Anne. “The Master of Rampling Gate” (1982). 

Module 4

Van Camp, R. (2013). On the Wings of This Prayer. In S. Moreno-Garcia (Ed.). Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction, pp, 164-173.

Suggested Readings

Baldy, Cutcha Risling. “On telling Native people to just ‘get over it’ or why I teach about the Walking Dead in my Native Studies classes.”  Sometimes Writer-Blogger Cutcha Risling Baldy, 11 Dec. 2013.
Troost, Linda. “The Undead 18th Century.” Presidential Address, EC-ASECS, 2010. 
Botting, Fred. Chapters 1-3. Gothic. Routledge, 1996, pp. 1-39.  
King, Stephen. “One For the Road” (1977). Night Shift. Doubleday, 1978.
Lovecraft, H.P. “The Outsider” (1926), HPLovecraft.com.
Lovecraft, H.P. “Herbert West—Reanimator” (1922), HPLovecraft.com.
Hervey, Ben. Night of the Living Dead. British Film Institute, 2008.
Wharton, Edith. “Bewitched.” Here and Beyond, 1927. University of Adelaide eBooks, 2016. 
Matheson, Richard. “Blood Son” (1951). Reprinted in The Best of Richard Matheson, edited by Victor LaValle, Penguin, 2017.
Matheson, Richard. “No Such Thing as a Vampire” (1959). Reprinted in The Best of Richard Matheson, edited by Victor LaValle, Penguin, 2017.