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Victorian Gothic Tales: Sensationalism and Society, 7.5 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-05-08

Swedish name: Viktorianska gotiska berättelser: Sensationalismen och samhället.
This syllabus is valid: 2018-08-20 valid to 2023-01-01 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
Syllabus for courses starting between 2018-08-20 and 2023-01-01
Course code: 1EN064
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: English: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Language Studies
Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2013-11-11
Revised by: Director of studies, Department of Language Studies, 2018-06-27

Required Knowledge

Univ: One of the following: 1) At least 90 ECTS including 75 ECTS with academic progression (corresponding to level 61-90 hp in the Swedish academic system) in English, or equivalent knowledge. To be accepted to the course, the applicant must have previously completed introduction and intermediate level courses in English literature at university level, or equivalent knowledge: 2) 90 ECTS in Swedish Comparative Literature. Knowledge of English equivalent of English 6/English Course B.
 

Literature

Valid from: 2018 week 28

Wuthering Heights
Brontë Emily, Nestor Pauline
Rev. ed. : London : Penguin Books : 2003 : liv, 353 s. :
ISBN: 0-14-143955-6
Mandatory
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Chaplin Sue
Gothic Literature
York Notes Companions ISBN: 978-1-4082-6666-3. : 2011 :
Mandatory

Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft, Hindle Maurice
Rev. ed. : London : Penguin : 2003 : lxiii, 273 s. :
ISBN: 0-14-143947-5 (pbk.) :
Mandatory
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Stevenson Robert Louis
The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
London : Penguin : 2006 : 88 s. :
ISBN: 0-14-102358-9 (pbk.) :
Mandatory
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Dracula
Stoker Bram, Hindle Maurice
Rev. ed. : London : Penguin Books : 2003 : xlvii, 454 s. :
ISBN: 0-14-143984-x
Mandatory
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The Routledge companion to Gothic
Spooner Catherine, McEvoy Emma.
London : Routledge : 2007. : xiv, 290 p. :

ISBN: 978-0-415-39842-8 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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