Tenative Schedule of Readings

(Note that this schedule is subject to change at instructor's discretion)
Week 1: Monday, July 6th
Introduction to course
Select Project
Introduction to the Gothic genre (begin reading Castle of Otranto)
Tuesday, July 7th
Horace Walpole, Castle of Otranto
Preface, Chapters 1, 2, & 3
Film: Hamlet
Wednesday, July 8th
Finish COO: Chapters 3, 4, and 5
Film: Hamlet
Presentation: Horace Walpole
Presentation: Gothic Architecture
Thursday, July 9th
Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 42-82
Presentation: Darwinism
Presentation: Robert L. Stevenson
Friday, July 10th
Finish novel, 83-122
Presentation: Doppelgangers
Presentation: Romanticism
Week 2
Monday, July 13th
Selected readings from and summary of Romance of the Forrest and Northanger Abbey - obtain readings from eCollege
Presentation: Ann Radcliffe
Presentation: Jane Austen
Presentation: French Revolution
Discussion: The Sublime and the Beautiful
Tuesday, July 14th
Watch Northanger Abbey
(get started reading "Lois the Witch")
Wednesday, July 15th
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic “Lois the Witch”
Presentation: Elizabeth Gaskell
Presentation: Salem Witch Trials
Presentation: Jacobites and the Stuart monarchy
Thursday, July 16th
Watch The Crucible
Presentation: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Presentation: Calvinism
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”
Friday July 17th
Edgar Allan Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842),
Watch film: Ligeia
Presentation: E. A. Poe
Presentation: Transcendentalism
Week 3
Monday, July 20th
Our Nig (page 1-43)
Presentation Harriet E. Wilson
Presentation on Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Tuesday, July 21st
Our Nig (44-80)
Watch Skeleton Key
Wednesday, July 22nd
Charles Chesnutt, “The Goopherded Grapevine” and “The Sheriff’s Children” from Conjure Woman
Presentation: Chesnutt
Finish Skeleton Key
Thursday, July 23rd
Watch To Kill a Mockingbird or Streetcar Named Desire
Presentation: Tennessee Williams
Friday, July 24th
George Washington Cable, “Jean-ah Poquelin”
Presentation: Cable
Finish Watching To Kill a Mockingbird or Streetcar Named Desire
Review Final
Week 4
Monday, July 27th
Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
Presentation: William Faulkner
O’Conner “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Presentation: Flannery O’Connor
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
Presentation: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Tuesday, July 28th
Joyce Carol Oates--:Where are you going, where have you been
Presentation: J. C. Oates
Watch film Smooth Talk
Wednesday, July 29th
Presentation: Chuck Palahniuk
Begin Watching Fight Club
no readings
Thursday, July 30th
Finish Fight Club
gather in groups to study
no readings
Friday, July 31st
Final Exam
Final Paper due