ENG 491H
Spring 2012
Dr. Leila S. May
Reports on Supplementary Readings
Mark your first three choices, in order of preference. I will do my best to give you one of
the preferences you marked. There are links to most of the readings directly from our
course syllabus. You can also find hard copies in the folder outside of my office. See
“Suggested Readings” list on course website for the full bibliographic citations and call
numbers for library reference.
Jan. 17 (to be decided the first day of class): Juliann E. Fleenor, Introduction, The
Female Gothic
Jan. 19: Carol Margaret Davison, "Haunted House/Haunted Heroine"
Jan. 24: Fred Botting, “Gothic Excess and Transgression”
Jan. 26: Judith Wilt, Introduction, Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot, Lawrence
Jan. 31: Paul Morrison, "Enclosed in Openness: Northanger Abbey and the Domestic
Carceral"
Feb. 7: Kate Ellis, Intro. And chap. 1, The Contested Castle
Feb. 9: Karen F. Stein, "Monsters and Madwomen: Changing Female Gothic," in
Juliann Fleenor, ed., The Female Gothic
Feb. 14: Eugenia DeLamotte, "Speaking 'I' and the Gothic Nightmare," in Perils of the Night
Feb. 21: Tania Modleski, "The Female Uncanny," in Loving With a Vengeance
Feb. 23: Helene Meyers, Intro. and chap. 2, Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female
Gothic Experience
March 17: Sandra Drake, "Race and Carribean Culture as Thematics of Liberation in
Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, in Judith L. Raiskin, ed., Wide Sargasso Sea
(2)
March 27: Rosemary Jackson, "Gothic Tales and Novels," Fantasy: The Literature of
Subversion
April 2: Claire Kahane, "The Gothic Mirror," The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist
Psychoanalytic Interpretations
April 14: Marianne Hirsh, "Maternity and Rememory: Toni Morrison's Beloved," in
Donna Basin, ed, Representations of Motherhood
April 16: Philip Page, "'Anything Dead Coming Back to Life Hurts': Circularity in
Beloved," in Dangerous Freedom