HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: english

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: English

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Louise Bethlehem

Coordinator Email: louise.bethlehem@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Wednesday 12:30-13:30

Teaching Staff:
Prof Louise Bethlehem

Course/Module description:
An investigation of the changing form of the Gothic novel across colonial and postcolonial contexts. Close readings of literary and cinematic texts.

Course/Module aims:
To identify the social uses of the gothic, with specific reference to late imperial and twentieth century social constructs of race and sexuality.
To situate gothic writing in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
To see lines of possible continuity between colonial and postcolonial gothic oeuvres.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To identify core features of gothic writing, as opposed to genres such as fantasy or horror.
To define the notions of colonialism, post-colonialism, racialization.
To offer historically informed analysis of a corpus of literary texts.

Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Weekly seminar arranged thematically. Two film screenings. Attendance required at all sessions.

Course/Module Content:
WEEKLY SCHEDULE OF READINGS

WEEKS 1-3: INTRODUCING THE IMPERIAL GOTHIC

Week 1: Introduction
Kipling, Rudyard
“The Mark of the Beast”
https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/134558/TheMarkOfTheBeastRudyardKipling.pdf?sequence&eq;1

Kipling, Rudyard
“The White Man’s Burden” http://ux1.eiu.edu/nekey/syllabi/british/kipling1899.pdf

Reader’s Guide to “The Mark of the Beast” http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_markbeast1.htm

Freud, Sigmund
2001 (1919). The Uncanny. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund
Freud, translated from the German under the general editorship of J. Strachey, in collaboration with A. Freud,assisted by A. Strachey and A. Tyson, Vol. 17: 217-52. London: Vintage, The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho—Analysis.

Weeks 2 – 3: The Imperial Gothic, continued
Kipling, Rudyard
“The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes,” https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/phantom/chapter3.html

“The Return of Imray,” https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/lifes/chapter24.html

“Beyond the Pale,” https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/plain/chapter20.html

Brantlinger, Patrick
1990 "Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914" in Rule of
Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914, 227-53 (Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press).
Low, Gail Ching-Liang
1996 "The Colonial Uncanny" White Skins, Black Masks: Representation and Colonialism, 113-155
(London: Routledge).
Smith, Andrew
2009 “Kipling’s Gothic and Postcolonial Laughter Gothic Studies 11(1): 58-69



WEEKS 4-7 BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA AND ITS AFTERLIVES

Week 4: Dracula and Degeneration
Craft, Christopher
1994 "Just Another Kiss," In Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse, 71-105 (Los Angeles, Berkeley, London: University of California Press).
Pick, Daniel
1988 ‘Terrors of the night’: Dracula and ‘degeneration’ in the late nineteenth century,” Critical
Quarterly 30 (4): 71-87.
Riquelme, Jean Paul
2000 "Towards a History of Gothic and Modernism: Dark Modernity from Bram Stoker to Samuel
Beckett" Modern Fiction Studies 46(3).

Week 5: Screening/Screaming
Francis Ford Coppola 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Botting, Fred
2008 “Romance Never Dies,” in Gothic Romanced: Consumption, Gender and Technology in
Contemporary Fictions (London and New York: Routledge).

Kaye, Heidi
2000 "Gothic Film," in A Companion to the Gothic, edited by David Punter, 180-92 (Oxford: Blackwell).
Thomas, Ronald R.
2000 "Specters of the Novel: Dracula and the Cinematic Afterlife of the Victorian Novel" in Victorian
Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century, edited by John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, 288-310 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).


Week 6: Engendering Vampires
Pope, Rebecca A.
1999 “Writing and Biting in Dracula,” in Byron 1999: 68-92.
Shuttleworth, Sally
1992 “Demonic Mothers: Ideologies of Bourgeois Motherhood in the Mid-Victorian Era,” in Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender, ed. Linda M. Shires, 31-51 (London: Routledge).
Stott, Rebecca
1992 "Dracula: A Social Purity Crusade," In The Kiss of Death: The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale", 52-87 (London: Macmillan).
Wicke, Jennifer
1992 “Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media,” English Literary History, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Summer, 1992), pp. 467-493.

Week 7: Reverse Colonization
Arata, Stephen D.
1999 “The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization,” in Byron 1999: 119-144.
Hughes, William
2003 "A Singular Invasion: Revisiting the Postcoloniality of Bram Stoker's Dracula," in Empire and
the Gothic: The Politics of Genre, edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes, 88-102
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).


WEEKS 8 -14 THE FEMALE GOTHIC IN (POST) COLONIAL TIMES

Week 8 Screening/Screaming

Jane Campion The Piano (1993)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107822/

Perrault, Charles “Bluebeard”
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault03.html

Margolis, Harriet
2000 “’A Strange Heritage’: From Colonization to Transformation?” in Jane Campion’s The Piano, edited by Harriet Margolis, 1-41 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Margaroni, Maria
2003 “Jane Campion's Selling of the Mother/Land: Restaging the Crisis of the Postcolonial Subject,”
Camera Obscura, 18(2): 93-123.

Weeks 9 -11 In the Heart of the Country
Coetzee, J. M.
1977 In the Heart of the Country (Johannesburg: Ravan)

Attridge, Derek
2004 “Modernist Form and the Ethics of Otherness: Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country,” in J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event , 1-31 (London and Chicago:
University of Chicago Press). [Extract]

Week 10 The Black Peril: A Family Romance?
Fanon, Frantz
1967 “The Fact of Blackness,” in Black Skin, White Masks. Trans. C. L. Markmann (New York: Grove Press).
Freud, Sigmund
1909 "Family romances" in The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund
Freud, ed. and trans. James Strachey, 24 vols. London: Hogarth Press, 1953-74, vol. 9.

Week 11 “The Mad Colonial Daughter’s Revolt”
Rody, Caroline
1994 "The Mad Colonial Daughter's Revolt: J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country," South
Atlantic Quarterly 93(1): 157- 180.

Weeks 12-13 Surface Reading

Beukes, Lauren
2010 Zoo City (Johannesburg: Jacana Books).
Millin, Sarah Gertrude
1927 [1926]. The South Africans. London: Constable and Co. Ltd. [Extract]

Graham, Shane
2015 “The Entropy of Built Things: Postapartheid Anxiety and the Production of Space in Henrietta
Rose-Innes’ Nineveh and Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City” Safundi 16(1): 2015.

Week 14 Open Mike: Summary and Integration

Required Reading:
Primary Texts

Beukes, Lauren
2010 Zoo City (Johannesburg: Jacana Books).

Coetzee, J. M.
1977 In the Heart of the Country (Johannesburg: Ravan)

Kipling, Rudyard
“The Mark of the Beast”
https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/134558/TheMarkOfTheBeastRudyardKipling.pdf?sequence&eq;1

Kipling, Rudyard
“The White Man’s Burden” http://ux1.eiu.edu/nekey/syllabi/british/kipling1899.pdf

Kipling, Rudyard
“The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes,” https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/phantom/chapter3.html

“The Return of Imray,” https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/lifes/chapter24.html

“Beyond the Pale,” https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/plain/chapter20.html

Perrault, Charles “Bluebeard”
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault03.html

Stoker, Bram
1993 (1897) Dracula (Ware, Herts: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.).



Secondary Sources

Arata, Stephen D.
1999 “The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization,” in Byron 1999: 119-144.
Attridge, Derek
2004 “Modernist Form and the Ethics of Otherness: Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country,” in J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event , 1-31 (London and Chicago:
University of Chicago Press). [Extract]
Botting, Fred
2008 “Romance Never Dies,” in Gothic Romanced: Consumption, Gender and Technology in
Contemporary Fictions (London and New York: Routledge).

Brantlinger, Patrick
1990 "Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914" in Rule of
Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914, 227-53 (Ithaca and London: Cornell
University Press).
Byron, Glennis, ed.
1999 Dracula: New Casebooks (London: St. Martin’s).
Craft, Christopher
1994 "Just Another Kiss," In Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse, 71-105 (Los Angeles, Berkeley, London: University of California Press).
Fanon, Frantz
1967 “The Fact of Blackness,” in Black Skin, White Masks. Trans. C. L. Markmann (New York: Grove Press).
Freud, Sigmund
1909 "Family romances" in The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund
Freud, ed. and trans. James Strachey, 24 vols. London: Hogarth Press, 1953-74, vol. 9.
Freud, Sigmund
2001 (1919). The Uncanny. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund
Freud, translated from the German under the general editorship of J. Strachey, in collaboration with A. Freud,assisted by A. Strachey and A. Tyson, Vol. 17: 217-52. London: Vintage, The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho—Analysis.
Graham, Shane
2015 “The Entropy of Built Things: Postapartheid Anxiety and the Production of Space in Henrietta
Rose-Innes’ Nineveh and Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City” Safundi 16(1): 2015.

Hughes, William
2003 "A Singular Invasion: Revisiting the Postcoloniality of Bram Stoker's Dracula," in Empire and
the Gothic: The Politics of Genre, edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes, 88-102
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
Kaye, Heidi
2000 "Gothic Film," in A Companion to the Gothic, edited by David Punter, 180-92 (Oxford: Blackwell).
Low, Gail Ching-Liang
1996 "The Colonial Uncanny" White Skins, Black Masks: Representation and Colonialism, 113-155
(London: Routledge).
Margolis, Harriet
2000 “’A Strange Heritage’: From Colonization to Transformation?” in Jane Campion’s The Piano, edited by Harriet Margolis, 1-41 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Margaroni, Maria
2003 “Jane Campion's Selling of the Mother/Land: Restaging the Crisis of the Postcolonial Subject,”
Camera Obscura, 18(2): 93-123.
Millin, Sarah Gertrude
1927 [1926]. The South Africans. London: Constable and Co. Ltd. [Extract]
Pick, Daniel
1988 ‘Terrors of the night’: Dracula and ‘degeneration’ in the late nineteenth century,” Critical
Quarterly 30 (4): 71-87.
Pope, Rebecca A.
1999 “Writing and Biting in Dracula,” in Byron 1999: 68-92.
Riquelme, Jean Paul
2000 "Towards a History of Gothic and Modernism: Dark Modernity from Bram Stoker to Samuel
Beckett" Modern Fiction Studies 46(3).
Rody, Caroline
1994 "The Mad Colonial Daughter's Revolt: J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country," South
Atlantic Quarterly 93(1): 157- 180.
Shuttleworth, Sally
1992 “Demonic Mothers: Ideologies of Bourgeois Motherhood in the Mid-Victorian Era,” in Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender, ed. Linda M. Shires, 31-51 (London: Routledge).
Smith, Andrew
2009 “Kipling’s Gothic and Postcolonial Laughter Gothic Studies 11(1): 58-69
Stott, Rebecca
1992 "Dracula: A Social Purity Crusade," In The Kiss of Death: The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale", 52-87 (London: Macmillan).
Thomas, Ronald R.
2000 "Specters of the Novel: Dracula and the Cinematic Afterlife of the Victorian Novel" in Victorian
Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century, edited by John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, 288-310 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
Wicke, Jennifer
1992 “Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media,” English Literary History, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Summer, 1992), pp. 467-493.
Williams, Anne
2000 "The Horror, The Horror: Recent Studies in Gothic Fiction Modern Fiction Studies" 46 (3): 789-799.

Additional Reading Material:
Select Additional Bibliography

Armitt, Lucie
2000 Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fantastic (Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's).
Auerbach, Nina
1997 Our Vampires, Ourselves (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Baldick, Chris
1990 In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing (Oxford:Clarendon Press).
Benjamin, Jessica
1988 The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Domination (New York: Pantheon).
Brantlinger, Patrick
1985 “Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent,” special issue, “Race, Writing, and Difference,” guest edited byHenry Louise Gates, Jr. Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 12(1): 166-203.
1998 The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth Century British Fiction (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
Cornwell, Neil
1990 The Literary Fantastic: From Gothic to Postmodernist (NY: Harvester Wheatsheaf).
Fleenor, Julian E., ed.
1983 The Female Gothic (Montreal: Eden Press).
Gelder, Ken
1994 Reading the Vampire (London: Routledge).
Hogle, Jerrold E., ed.
2002 The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press).
Hughes, William
2000 "Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," in Punter 2000: 143-154.
2000 Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and its Cultural Context (New York:
St. Martin's).
Hurley, Kelly
1996 The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the fin de siecle
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Jackson, Rosemary
1988 Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion (London: Routledge).
Malchow, H.L.
1996 Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Stanford: Stanford University
Press).
Mighall, Robert
1999 A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History’s Nightmares
(Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Mishra, Vijay
1994 The Gothic Sublime (Albany: SUNY).
Moore-Gilbert, B.J.
1986 Kipling and 'Orientalism' (New York: St. Martin's).
Mulvey-Roberts, Marie
1998 The Handbook to Gothic Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
Palmer, Paulina
1999 Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions ( New York: Cassell).
Parkin-Gounelas, Ruth
2001 "The Uncanny Text," in Literature and Psychoanalysis: Intertextual Readings, 103-130
(London: Palgrave).
Punter, David
1996 The Literature of Terror: The Gothic Tradition 2 vols. (London and New York:
Longman).
Punter, David., ed.
2000 A Companion to the Gothic (Oxford: Blackwell).
Rickels, Laurence A.
1995 The Vampire Lectures (Minneapolis and London: Minnesota)
Robbins, Ruth and Julian Wolfreys, ed.
2001 Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century
(Basingstoke: Palgrave).
Sedgwick, Eve
1980 The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (New York: Arno Press).
Schmitt, Cannon
1997 Alien Nation: Nineteenth Century Gothic Fiction and English Nationalism (Philadelphia:
Penn).
Smith, Andrew
1999 Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth-Century (New York: St. Martin's)

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 25 %
Project work 50 %
Assignments 25 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
Class participation grades will be based on the submission of three short response papers as well as short weekly oral presentations.