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Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction
The British and American Traditions
Editor(s): Diane Long Hoeveler, Tamar Heller
Pages: xiv & 310 pp.
Published: 2003
ISBN: 9780873529075
"An excellent, indispensable volume, which is impressive in its breadth, depth, and detail. It offers a wealth of material not only for anyone who teaches a course on Gothic traditions in Britain, Ireland, and the United States but also for anyone who teaches the nineteenth-century British novel in general, Sarah Orne Jewett, contemporary American film, or any number of other specific topics covered here. A substantial contribution to the field of Gothic studies."
Eugenia C. DeLamotte, Arizona State University
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
Recent decades have seen a revival of scholarly interest in Gothic fiction. Critics are attracted to the genre's exploration of irrationality, to its dark representation of the bourgeois family and of the psychological effects of social conflict. Because of this critical interest and because of the enduring popularity of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, the Gothic has become increasingly visible on college syllabi.
This volume, like others in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," gives information on available editions, anthologies, reference works, background sources, critical studies, films, and Web sites of value in teaching Gothic fiction. The second part, "Approaches," contains twenty-eight essays that define the genre; examine its connections to history, philosophy, feminism, social criticism; show its different forms in England, Ireland, the United States; and probe its themes--including such motifs as ghosts, castles, entrapped heroines, and animated corpses.
Among the many authors discussed are Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Toni Morrison.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions
Part 1: MATERIALS
Tamar Heller
Some Results of the Survey
Editions
The Instructor's Library
Reference and Background Sources
Historical Background
Critical Background: Overviews of the Tradition and its History
Criticism by Period
The Gothic Pantheon: Selected Criticism
Critical Approaches
Readings for Students
Aids to Teaching
Part Two: APPROACHES
Teaching the Backgrounds
"And Still Insists He Sees the Ghosts": Defining the Gothic
Judith Wilt
Philosophy and the Gothic Novel
Marshall Brown
The Gothic and Ideology
Robert Miles
Teaching the Gothic through the Visual Arts
Stephen C. Behrendt
The Horrors of Misogyny: Feminist Psychoanalysis in the Gothic Classroom
Anne Williams
Teaching the Gothic and the Scientific Context
Carol A. Senf
Teaching the British Gothic Tradition
The First English Gothic Novel: Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
James Norton
Early Women's Gothic Writing: Historicity and Canonicity in Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron and Sophia Lee's The Recess
Angela Wright
Teaching the Early Female Canon: Gothic Feminism in Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Austen, Dacre, and Shelley
Diane Long Hoeveler
Suffering through the Gothic: Teaching Radcliffe
Cannon Schmitt
Teaching the Male Gothic: Lewis, Beckford, and Stevenson
Scott Simpkins
Teaching the Homosocial in Godwin, Hogg, and Wilde
Ranita Chatterjee and Patrick M. Horan
Teaching the Gothic Novel and Dramatic Adaptations
Marjean D. Purinton
Teaching Irish Gothic: Big-House Displacements in Maturin and Le Fanu
Mark M. Hennelly, Jr.
Fear of Furniture: Commodity Gothicism and the Teaching of Victorian Literature
Tricia Lootens
Hearts of Darkness: Teaching Race, Gender, and Imperialism in Victorian Gothic Literature
Tamar Heller
Surveying the Vampire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Daniel Scoggin
Teaching Contemporary Female Gothic: Murdoch, Carter, Atwood
Susan Allen Ford
Teaching the American Gothic Tradition
Historicizing the American Gothic: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland
Teresa A. Goddu
Using Narrative Form to Teach Poe's Gothic Fiction
Richard Fusco
Teaching the Doppelgänger in American Gothic Fiction: Poe and James
A. A. Markley
The Fall of the House of the Seven Gables and Other Ambiguities of the American Gothic
Laura Dabundo
Supernatural Transmissions: Turn-of-the-Century Ghosts in American Women's Fiction: Jewett, Freeman, Wharton, and Gilman
Kathy Justice Gentile
Teaching the African American Gothic: From Its Multiple Sources to Linden Hills and Beloved
Jerrold E. Hogle
Making the Case: Teaching Stephen King and Anne Rice through the Gothic Tradition
Bette B. Roberts
Specific Classroom Contexts
Teaching the Gothic in an Interdisciplinary Honors Class
Sandy Feinstein
Involving Resistant Readers: Exploring the Gothic through Role-Playing and Identity Writing
Mark James Morreale
Teaching Gothic Literature through Filmic Adaptations
Wheeler Winston Dixon
Works Cited
Index
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