Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of Surrey
Course Title:
Gothic to Goth
Course Number:
ELI3031
Course Description:
The Gothic has been a fixture of British and American literary history and popular culture from its origins in the 18th century. Straddling both high and low art forms, appealing to elite as well as mass audiences, the Gothic thrives on blurring boundaries and dissolving traditional dichotomies. This module focuses on Gothic literary and cultural production from Horace Walpole’s 1764 Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto to the ubiquity of a stylized Goth aesthetic in 21st century cinema and television. Drawing on a variety of texts, this module begins by addressing how the early Gothic monster served as a trope of Otherness by highlighting fears and anxieties about class, ethnicity, race, sexuality and gender. We will then examine the complicated political trajectory of Gothic literary and cinematic texts from the 19th- and 20th-centuries and how, by 2011, the proliferation of Gothic figures in novels and on screen has led to
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
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