{"id":493,"date":"2025-02-19T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/?p=493"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:25:30","slug":"engl-362-921-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/2025\/02\/19\/engl-362-921-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGL 362\/921 (May 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ENGL 362\/921 Victorian Period Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Term 1 | TTh 2:00-5:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghosts are Real (So are Vampires): Victorian Gothic Terror, Horror, and the Supernatural<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u201cGhosts are real, this much I know\u201d \u2013 Edith Cushing, <em>Crimson Peak<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u201cThere are such beings as vampires; some of us have evidence that they exist\u201d \u2013 Abraham Van Helsing, <em>Dracula<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether we take Edith Cushing or Abraham Van Helsing at their word, the 19th-century Gothic revival certainly emphasized possibilities for terror and horror in tales of the supernatural. However, these interventions of spectral and un-dead beings often take place in the recognizable present; they speak to its anxieties. Perhaps they speak to ours as well, given our recent fascination with Neo-Victorian representations of the 19th century, such as <em>Crimson Peak<\/em>, as well as <em>Penny Dreadful<\/em>,\u00a0<em>From Hell<\/em>, Sarah Waters\u2019s Victorian trilogy, the numerous adaptations of <em>Dracula<\/em> (such as the recent third <em>Nosferatu<\/em>), plus many others.<\/p>\n<p>We will examine fiction addressing issues of gender and sexuality; class, race, and culture; realism and the supernatural; urban and rural settings, all in a century known for developments in science and technology (especially photography), social upheaval, and a veneer of respectability, yet with monsters lurking in closets and under beds. Our focus will also permit consideration of the boom in publication of popular literature in a variety of formats, as well as the rise of the professional writer during the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>Core texts include Margaret Oliphant\u2019s <em>The Library Window<\/em>, Sheridan LeFanu\u2019s <em>Carmilla<\/em>, Henry James\u2019s <em>The Turn of the Screw<\/em>, and selected short fiction possibly including M.R. James, \u201cOh, Whistle, and I\u2019ll Come to You, My Lad\u201d; Elizabeth Gaskell, \u201cThe Old Nurse\u2019s Story\u201d; Sheridan LeFanu, \u201cAn Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street\u201d; Mary Braddon\u2019s \u201cGood Lady Ducayne,\u201d R.L. Stevenson, \u201cThe Body Snatcher\u201d; E. Nesbit, \u201cJohn Charrington\u2019s Wedding\u201d and maybe a couple of Victorian werewolf stories (since werewolf stories feature prominently in the research done for both <em>Carmilla<\/em> and Bram Stoker\u2019s infamous <em>Dracula<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Evaluation will be based on a midterm essay, a term paper, a final reflection essay, and participation in discussion both in class and on the course\u2019s Canvas site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENGL 362\/921 Victorian Period Literature Term 1 | TTh 2:00-5:00 p.m. Ghosts are Real (So are Vampires): Victorian Gothic Terror, Horror, and the Supernatural \u201cGhosts are real, this much I know\u201d \u2013 Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak \u201cThere are such beings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/2025\/02\/19\/engl-362-921-may-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}