The Victorian Gothic

3 ch (W) · Undergraduate

The Gothic has been an influential and popular genre since its development in the eighteenth century. Unearth the Gothic aesthetics that permeate Victorian literature. Gothic p henomena — such as beleaguered heroines, animated corpses, and blood - thirsty vampires — give voice to the darker anxieties of the Victorian period, creating an acutely contemporary mode. Course texts engage with key Gothic concepts, such as the phantasmago ria, the Female Gothic, and Freud’s uncanny. NOTE: Open - entry course taught online.