The course intends to analyse the English Gothic novel from the perspective of the literary fantastic and the sublime and as a reaction to Enlightenment.
The English Gothic novel
TESTI:
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
TESTI CRITICI:
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 be an oral discussion about the texts of the course
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