The Ghostly and the Gothic in the Canon of 19th-Century Short FictionGéza Maráczi
BBN-ANG-218/p
R5 326 Tue 16:00-17:30
narratologic@gmail.com
Reading schedule:
11 February
Introduction; screening of Doctor Who episode 159 – “The Unquiet
Dead” (2005) [featuring Simon Callow as Dickens]
18 Feb
‘The Tapestried Chamber’ (1829) by Walter Scott and ‘The Tell-Tale
Heart’ (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe [CM] (= on the course material
site)
25 Feb
‘The Story of a Goblins Who Stole a Sexton’ (1837) and ‘The Baron
of Grogzwig’ (1839) by Charles Dickens [CM]
4 March
‘The Old Nurse’s Story’ (1852) and ‘The Squire’s Story’ (1855) by
Elizabeth Gaskell [CM]
11 March
‘The Trial for Murder – To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt’ (1865)
and ‘The Signalman’ (1866) by Charles Dickens [CM]
18 March
‘An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street’
(1852) or ‘‘Squire Toby’s Will’ (1869) and ‘Green Tea’ (1872) by
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu [CM]
25 March
‘Thrawn Janet’ (1881) or ‘The Body-Snatcher’ (1884) and
‘Markheim’ (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson [CM]
1 April
‘At Crighton Abbey’ (1871) or ‘The Shadow of the Corner’ (1879)
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and ‘The Withered Arm’ (1888) by
Thomas Hardy [CM]
8 Apr
‘In the House of Suddhoo’ (1886) or ‘At the End of the Passage’
(1890) by Rudyard Kipling [CM]
15 Apr
‘The Judge’s House’ (1891) or ‘The Secret of Growing Gold’ (1892)
by Bram Stoker
29 Apr
‘The Brown Hand’ (1899) or ‘The Captain of the Polestar’ (1890) by
Arthur Conan Doyle [CM]
6 May
‘The Jolly Corner’ (1908) by Henry James [CM]
13 May
‘Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ (1904) and ‘Lost Hearts’
(1895) or ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book’ (1895) or ‘A School Story’
(1911) or ‘The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral’ (1911) or ‘The Story
of a Disappearance and an Appearance’ (1913) or ‘A View from a
Hill’ (1925) by Montague Rhodes James [CM]
The Ghostly and the Gothic in the Canon of 19th-Century Short FictionGéza Maráczi
BBN-ANG-218/p
R5 326 Tue 16:00-17:30
narratologic@gmail.com
Set material: the primary texts listed above; short readings in relevant secondary
material for the exam [CM = on the course material site]
Best on-line source for texts: ebooks.adelaide.edu.au; recommended editions of texts:
Baldick, Chris (ed.) (1992, 1993, 2001, 2009) The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales.
Blair, David (ed.) (2002) Gothic Short Stories (Wordsworth Classics).
Collings, Rex (ed.) (1996) Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (Wordsworth
Classics).
Cox, Michael and R. A. Gilbert (eds.) (2008) The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories.
Cox, Michael and R. A. Gilbert (eds.) (1991, 1992, 2003) The Oxford Book of
Victorian Ghost Stories.
Cuddon, J. A. (ed.) (1985) The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories.
Newton, Michael (ed.) (2010) The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell
to Ambrose Bierce.
as well as the Oxford World’s Classics and Penguin Classics selections of short fiction
by particular authors (several reprints) and other thematic anthologies
Requirements: short quizzes on the readings; a half- to 1-page long response paper or
'thought-note' on one of the texts we discuss in a given class due on the class
devoted to each text; and an oral exam on the works discussed, partly based on
short readings in relevant secondary material.
Optional material, to compensate for 3 quizzes got wrong or missing response papers:
selected additional readings from a list of additional short stories.
Assessment is based on: quizzes (getting 3 wrong results in gaining extra reading for the
exam); oral exam; response papers (missing the submission of 1 results in gaining
extra reading for the exam or subtracts from the grade), AND participation in
discussions.
Note on requirements:
Response papers should not be submitted later than the class we devote to the text
they concern, late submission counts as a missing response paper. Note that you also
have to submit a response paper if you miss the relevant class, I would ask you to send it
to me in advance if you know that you would be absent.
It would be useful to find one or two scholarly articles (from databases) on the
work you choose, as sources for your exam, further to the ones I will be providing you
with. There are few book(-chapter)s accessible discussing short fiction (see below). I can
provide articles, if needed.
- Suggested secondary sources on the ghost story and the Gothic, for reading or for
your exam, with special focus on 19th-century (short) fiction, in addition to other
scholarly book(-chapter)s (to be found in libraries or on the internet) or articles (to be
found in databases); relevant chapters from:
Botting, Fred (1996, 20052) Gothic, London, New York: Routledge. [PDF]
The Ghostly and the Gothic in the Canon of 19th-Century Short FictionGéza Maráczi
BBN-ANG-218/p
R5 326 Tue 16:00-17:30
narratologic@gmail.com
Groom, Nick (2012) The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: OUP.
Hay, Simon (2011) A History of the Modern British Ghost Story, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan. [PDF]
Hogle, Jerrold E. (ed.) (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction, Cambridge:
CUP. [PDF]
Matus, Jill L. (2009) Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction, Cambridge:
CUP. [PDF]
Punter, David, Glennis Byron (2004) The Gothic (Blackwell Guides to Literature), Malden
MA: Blackwell. [PDF]
Punter, David (ed.) (2012) A New Companion to the Gothic, Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
[PDF]
Robbins, Ruth, Julian Wolfreys (eds.) (2000) Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural
Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century, Basingstoke: Palgrave. [PDF]
Royle, Nicholas (2003) The Uncanny, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Smith, Andrew (2007) Gothic Literature (Edinburgh Critical Guides), Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press.
Smith, Andrew (2012) The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History, Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press.
Smith, Andrew, William Hughes (eds.) (2012) The Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh
Companion, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Spooner, Catherine, Emma McEvoy (eds) (2008) The Routledge Companion to the Gothic,
London, New York: Routledge. [PDF]
Thurston, Luke (2012) Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism: The
Haunting Interval, London, New York: Routledge. [PDF]
Wolfreys, Julian (2011) Victorian Hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny, and
Literature, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- On the short story form as a subgenre in English, as opposed to American, literature;
relevant chapters from:
Allen, Walter (1981) The Short Story in English, Oxford: Clarendon Press. [FSzEK]
Hunter, Adrian (2007) The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English,
Cambridge: CUP. [PDF]
Malcolm, David, Cheryl Alexander Malcolm (eds) (2008) A Companion to the British and
Irish Short Story, Malden MA: Blackwell. [PDF]
Orel, Harold (1986) The Victorian Short Story: Development and Triumph of a Literary
Genre, Cambridge: CUP. [MTAK]
as well as from Cambridge Companions or Cambridge Introductions to individual authors.
- Suggested secondary sources on the possibilities of a general historical or theoretical
approach to the short story:
March-Russell, Paul (2009) The Short Story: An Introduction, Edinburgh: EUP. [I can send
it to you]
May, Charles E. (1995) The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice, London and New York:
Routledge. [OIK]
May, Charles E. (ed.) (1994) The New Short Story Theories, Ohio University Press.
[MTAK]
The Ghostly and the Gothic in the Canon of 19th-Century Short FictionGéza Maráczi
BBN-ANG-218/p
R5 326 Tue 16:00-17:30
narratologic@gmail.com
- Reliable on-line sources for reference material (literary theory and criticism) TO BE
CITED, giving name of author, title of article, URL where retrievable:
www.literaryhistory.com
vos.ucsb.edu
cla.purdue.edu/english/theory
as well as on-line scholarly journal databases Project MUSE, JSTOR, EBSCO, or Literature
On-line, available via wi-fi on campus, from the Faculty library (központi olvasóterem /
kari olvasó) and the central Ervin Szabó Library (FSzEK) – for ELTE-students off-campus
on-line access is also provided!!, details may be found on the SEAS website
- Good sources of on-line texts:
ebooks.adelaide.edu.au
www.gutenberg.org
www.bartleby.com
www.online-literature.com
- Budapest research libraries (apart from SEAS) in subjective decreasing order of
usefulness for English Studies:
MTAK: Library of the Academy – for the most daring: www.mtak.hu
OIK: Foreign Language Library – well advanced but slightly inconvenient: www.oik.hu
FSzEK: Central Ervin Szabó Library – advanced (strong in literature, surprisingly good in
secondary
material)
and
convenient:
www.fszek.hu