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Unit 1: Introduction and The Monk—A “Textbook” Gothic Novel

Bonnycastle, Stephen. Excerpts from “Introduction,” and “Chapter One: Why Study Literary Theory Now?” In Search of Authority: An Introductory Guide to Literary Theory, 2nd ed., Broadview Press, 1996, pp. 9–14, 19–21. 

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Belsey, Catherine. “Chapter 1: Traditional Criticism and Common Sense.” Critical Practice, 2nd ed., Routledge, 2002, pp. 16–27. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Chandler, James, editor. The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2009. The New Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge Core.

Please read

  • Introduction, by James Chandler
  • Chapter 16: Changes in the World of Publishing, by Adrian Johns
  • Chapter 19: Transformations of the Novel—I, by Deirdre Lynch
  • Chapter 20: Transformations of the Novel—II, by Ina Ferris
  • Chapter 21: Theatre, Performance and Urban Spaces, by Julie Carlson
Botting, Fred. Gothic, Taylor & Francis, 2005. Proquest Ebook Central. The New Critical Idiom series.

Please read

  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Gothic Excess and Transgression
  • Chapter 2: Gothic Origins (the first section, pages 14–16)
Recommended Reading
Belsey, Catherine. “Chapter 3: Criticism and Meaning.” Critical Practice, 2nd ed., Routledge, 2002, pp. 46–60. ProQuest Ebook Central.
St. Clair, William. “Chapter 1: Reading and Its Consequences.” The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. Cambridge UP, 2004. 
Botting, Fred. "Chapter 4: Gothic Writing in the 1870s." Gothic, Taylor & Francis, 2005, pp. 40–58. Proquest Ebook Central. The New Critical Idiom series.
Tuite, Clara. “Cloistered Closets: Enlightenment Pornography, the Confessional State, Homosexual Persecution, and The Monk.” Special issue on Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, Romanticism on the Net, no. 8, 1997. Érudit.  

Unit 2: Northanger Abbey—Satire, Realism, and the Gothic

Recommended Reading
Benedict, Barbara M. “Reading by the Book in Northanger Abbey.” Persuasions, vol. 20, no. 1, 1999. 
Eisner, Eric. “Jane Austen and the Gothic.” Teaching Jane Austen, edited by Emily C. Friedman and Devoney Looser, Romantic Circles, 2015.

Unit 3: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater—Gothic Nonfiction

O’Quinn, Daniel. “Ravishment Twice Weekly: De Quincey’s Opera Pleasures.” Opera and Nineteenth-Century Literature, special issue of Romanticism on the Net, edited by Nicholas Halmi, no. 34–35, 2004. Érudit.
Stevenson, Ian. “De Quincey’s Acoustemology.” SoundEffects, vol. 4, no. 1, 2014, pp. 131–143. 

Unit 4: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde—Scientific Romance and Modern Horror

Campbell, Charles. “Women and Sadism in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: ‘City in a Nightmare.’” English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920, vol. 57, no. 3, 2014, pp. 309–323.
Ganz, Melissa J. “Carrying on Like a Madman: Insanity and Responsibility in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.” Nineteenth Century Literature, vol. 70, no. 3, 2015, pp. 363–397.  
Mccrystal, Erica. “Hyde the Hero: Changing the Role of the Modern-Day Monster.” Monster Studies, special issue of University of Toronto Press Quarterly, edited by Chris Koenig-Woodyard, Shalini Nanayakkara, and Yashvi Khatri, vol. 87, no. 1, Winter 2018, pp. 234–248.

Critique 1: Critique of a Scholarly Article on The Monk.

Frank, Fred, editor. Matthew Lewis’ The Monk. Special issue of Romanticism on the Net, no. 8, 1997.
The Gothic: From Ann Radcliffe to Anne Rice. Special issue of Romanticism on the Net, no. 44, November 2006.
Baldick, Chris. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. 2nd edition, Oxford UP, 2004.
Groden, Michael, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman, editors. Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. 2nd edition, Hopkins Press, 2012.