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Discipline of English, National University of Ireland, Galway 3BA/4BA Course Outline Booklet 2016 – 2017 Semester 2 Head of Third Year: Dr. Frances McCormack, Room 307, Floor 1, Tower 1 Third Fourth Year Semester 2, 2016-2017 Students are required to choose between: EN2111 or ENG303 And ENG304 or EN388 EN399 may be chosen instead of a lecture course in Semester 2 Plus ONE seminar course EN2111 NINETEENTH CENTURY GOTHIC FICTION This course examines popular nineteenth-century adaptations in fiction of traditional late eighteenth-century Gothic forms. Emphasis is on the potentially subversive nature of the texts; Victorian theories of gender, class, and psychology will be examined in terms of their impact on literature of the time. Texts will include selections from the following authors: M.G. Lewis, Horace Walpole,?Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Henry James.? Venue:?? Tuesday 5-6 AM250 Colm O’hEocha Theatre and Wednesday 9-10 IT250 IT Building ? Lecturers:?????????? Dr. Elizabeth Tilley ? Texts:?? Horace Walpole,?The Castle of?Otranto?(1764)? M.G. Lewis,?The Monk?(1796)? Mary Shelley,?Frankenstein?(1818)? Edgar Allan Poe,?Selected Tales?(1830s-1840s)? Sheridan Le?Fanu,?In A Glass Darkly?(1872)? Robert Louis Stevenson,?Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde(1886)? Bram Stoker,?Dracula?(1897)? Henry James,?The Turn of the Screw?(1898)? ? Assessment??????? Mid-term Assessment (40%) End-of-Semester Examination (60%) ENG303 NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE This course focuses upon a variety of different genres from the mid-nineteenth century with an emphasis on the way in which American writers are constructing a national literature and a national history. The module anchors the reading of texts in the social, historical and political contexts from which they emerge and to which they respond. It engages with contemporary reform movements, such as abolitionism and womens righ