Gothic Afterlives
UndergraduateGRF-LHS2412027
Course information for 2027 intake View information for 2026 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 21 Feb 2027
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Price from
- $630
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Gothic Afterlives
About this subject
This subject will equip you to:
- Analyse literary, screen and cultural texts using established research and critical interpretation methods.
- Interpret and contribute to debates surrounding literature, culture and representation.
- Communicate historical, cultural and theoretical ideas effectively in written and oral forms.
- Examine the influence of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic texts on literature, film and television.
- Understand how ideas about genre, taste and literary value have evolved over time.
- Evaluate how concepts such as culture, reason, progress and superstition have been represented and contested across different historical periods.
- Introduction to the Gothic
- The Castle of Otranto
- Origins of Gothic fiction
- Austen’s Northanger Abbey
- Gothic readers and literary culture
- The Yellow Wallpaper
- Dracula
- The Turn of the Screw
- Rebecca
- Rosemary's Baby
- Let the Right One In
- Penny Dreadful (eps 1 and 4 - Season 1 and ep 3 - Season 2)
- Contemporary Gothic afterlives
Gothic Afterlives traces the history of the Gothic genre from its origins in the ghoul-infested castles and spectralised landscapes of 18th century art and literature through to the secretive suburban blood-suckers of contemporary television drama. From its beginnings the Gothic has been a popular and controversial phenomenon that has drawn its energies from the darker regions of the imagination and the borderlands of taste. In the Gothic nothing is as it seems. The world of cheerful and comforting appearances, secure homes, grand cities, and the reassuring solidity, identity and sexuality of the body are all made vulnerable by the uncanny effects of the Gothic imagination. In this course we'll follow the development of the Gothic in selected texts, films and TV series.
- Weekly Quiz (20%)
- Assignment Essay (40%)
- Take Home Exam (40%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Assumed knowledge of essay writing and critical interpretation.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateGRF-ART-DEG
UndergraduateGRF-COM-DEG
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