“THE ENGLISH GOTHIC NOVEL”
The course will analyze the English Gothic novel within the canon of fantastic literature, seen as a reaction against Enlightenment and through the lens of the theories of the Sublime.
TEXTS:
H.Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, 1765
A.Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794
M.Lewis, The Monk, 1797
M.Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818
B.Stoker, Dracula, 1897
CRITICAL TEXTS:
Botting, Gothic, The New Critical Idiom, Routledge, 1996
M.Billi ed., Il Gotico Inglese, Bologna,Il Mulino, 1986;
E.Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful , 1757
The lessons will be in English. The exam will consist in an oral discussion in English on the texts in the program.
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