NOC:The Popular Gothic Novel

Lecture 1 - Introduction: Key Novel

Lecture 2 - Gothic Elements; Gothic Sublime.

Lecture 3 - Introduction: Gothic Terror and Horror

Lecture 4 - Gothic Forebonding; Affinity with the French Revolution; Types of Gothic Fiction

Lecture 5 - Gothic and identities, Empire, Contemporary Anxieties

Lecture 6 - Ann Radcliffe, The Mystries of Udolpho: The Castle of Motif

Lecture 7 - Gothic Castle, Gothic Energy, Gothic Sensibility

Lecture 8 - Reading the Gothic Novel; Gothic and Family

Lecture 9 - Gothic Domesticity and Patriarchy

Lecture 10 - Gothic and Travel, Marriage, Discussion Questions

Lecture 11 - The Gothic Contexts

Lecture 12 - Plotting the Gothic

Lecture 13 - Feminine Silence and Marginality

Lecture 14 - Gothic Landscape

Lecture 15 - Historical and Literary Contexts

Lecture 16 - Gothic Parody

Lecture 17 - Gothic Terrors and the Education of Catherine Morland

Lecture 18 - Gothic Reading and Mentor Figures

Lecture 19 - Gothic Parody and Female Gothic

Lecture 20 - Parodying the Gothic Villain

Lecture 21 - Introduction to Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights

Lecture 22 - Gothic terror, Fantasy and Violence

Lecture 23 - Gothic Transgressions

Lecture 24 - Gothic Displacement: Family, Childhood and Confinement

Lecture 25 - Gothic Displacement: The conflict between children and parental authority

Lecture 26 - Introduction to Charlotte Bronte, and the plot of Jane Eyre

Lecture 27 - Gothic Plot and Imperial Gothic

Lecture 28 - Gothic Subtexts; Madness and Femininity

Lecture 29 - Gothic Rebellion and Symbols: Thornfield Hall and Bertha Mason

Lecture 30 - Gothic Rebellion, The Domestic and the Colony

Lecture 31 - Introduction to the Christmas Ghost Story and Charles Dickens

Lecture 32 - The Gothic Plot, Spectrality, and Commodity

Lecture 33 - The Dark Narrative; The Ghostly Children

Lecture 34 - Gothic City: the City of Spectress

Lecture 35 - Gothic Structure and The Consciousness

Lecture 36 - Introduction to Dracula, Literary Contexts and Gothic Monsters

Lecture 37 - Gothic Sexuality, Tradition, and Metaphors

Lecture 38 - Gothic Transformations and Narrative Roles

Lecture 39 - Gothic Symbolisms: Vampirism and residuum

Lecture 40 - The Urban Gothic, New Woman and Gothic Monsters

Lecture 41 - Introduction to the author; the novel; literary Contexts

Lecture 42 - Plotting and the Female Gothic

Lecture 43 - Imperial Gothic

Lecture 44 - Legacies of Empire and Gothic

Lecture 45 - Imperial Gothic, and the Orient

Lecture 46 - Introduction to Doyle and conrtexts

Lecture 47 - Gothic Plot

Lecture 48 - Anxieties of the Past and the Future

Lecture 49 - Gothic tropes, landscape and cultural anxieties

Lecture 50 - Gothic Crime and Mythical Subtexts

Lecture 51 - Gothic Evil

Lecture 52 - Introduction to Oscar Wilde; Literary Contexts; Plot of the novel

Lecture 53 - Aesthetic Gothic

Lecture 54 - Aestheticism and Degeneracy

Lecture 55 - Gothic Art and Morality

Lecture 56 - Gothic Setting

Lecture 57 - Gothic Setting (Continuation...)

Lecture 58 - Dicken's Realist Gothic 'Bleak House' Women's Writing

Lecture 59 - Lectuer Overview

Lecture 60 - Lectuer Overview

Lecture 61 - Overview of Frankenstein and Jane Eyre

Lecture 62 - Lectuer Overview