Syllabus
6 October
Course overview, requirements
Introduction I 13 October
Introduction II
Creeping in: W. Scott 20 October: Household Ghosts
Ch. Dickens, E. Gaskell 27 November: Sensational Spectres
W. Collins, M. E. Braddon 3 November: Scary Scotland
M. Oliphant, R. L. Stevenson 10 November: Eerie Ireland
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, B. Stoker 17 November no class, state holiday 24 November: Quaint, Queer & Exotic
V. Paget (V. Lee), A. B. Edwards 1 December: Fearsome Colonies
R. Kipling, A. C. Doyle, B. M. Croker 8 December: Discovering "Monty"
M. R. James 15 December: Into the Weird
E. F. Benson, A. Blackwood, A. Machen 22 December: A Ghost story for Christmas (screening) 5 January: Spooky Modernism
V. Woolf, D. H. Lawrence
Wrapping up
Annotation
Winter Term 2021
Wednesday 15:50-17:20
Instructor: Mgr. Petra Johana Poncarová, PhD.
The course seeks to acquaint the students with the rich tradition of the ghost story on the British Isles, from the emergence of the genre through its golden age to the later developments, including weird fiction. The syllabus includes works by the most renowned writers associated chiefly with the genre (M. R. James, V. Paget, A. B. Edwards, F. E. Benson, A. Machen), but also less-known ventures into the realm of the ghost story by canonical authors (W. Scott, Ch. Dickens, E. Gaskell).