Reading Schedule

Please note that this schedule is subject to change.


WEEK 1
9/2-9/3 No novel--introductions

WEEK 2
9/6-9/10 “The Vampyre” by John Polidori
You can find the full text here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6087
D2L
“Giving Up the Ghosts” by Nina Auerbach

WEEK 3
9/13-19/17 Wuthering Heights

WEEK 4
9/20-9/24 Wuthering Heights (contd.)
D2L
“Why am I so changed?”: Vampiric Selves and Gothic Doubleness in Wuthering Heights” Lakshmi Krishnan

WEEK 5
9/27-10/1
Carmilla (From In a Glass Darkly)

WEEK 6
10/4-10/8 Carmilla (contd.)
D2L
“The Vampire in the House: Hysteria, Female Sexuality, and Female Knowledge in Le Fanu's 'Carmilla' (1872)”

WEEK 7
10/11-10/15 Dracula

WEEK 8
10/18-10/22 Dracula (contd.)
On page 462 of the edition
“The Occidental Tourist” Stephen D. Arata

WEEK 9
10/25-10/29 I Am Legend

WEEK 10
11/1-11/5 I Am Legend (contd.)
D2L
“Echoes of Dracula: Racial Politics and the Failure of Segregated Spaces in Richard Matheson's I Am Legend” Kathy David Patterson

WEEK 11
11/8-11/12 Interview with the Vampire

WEEK 12
11/15-11/19 Interview with the Vampire (contd.)
D2L
“Anne Rice and the Queering of Culture” George Haggerty

WEEK 13
11/22-11/24 Post about final projects

WEEK 14
11/29-12/4 Let the Right One In


WEEK 15
12/6-12/10 Let the Right One In
D2L
“Childhood’s End” John Calhoun and “Warm-Blooded: True Blood and Let the Right One in” J.M. Tyree

WEEK 16
12/13-12/17 FINAL PROJECT DUE FRIDAY 12/17 11:59 pm