# The Popular Gothic Novel

- Institution: IIT Madras
- Department: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher: Prof. Divya A
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [NPTEL](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106177)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA](https://nptel.ac.in/faq) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106177)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Contents of the Course

• The course discusses the defining traits of the popular gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century English fiction. • The course traces the structures and implications of the various plots of the popular gothic novel that caught the imagination of the reading public in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain. • The course introduces the students to a wide range of eighteenth and nineteenth- century novelists who were practitioners of the gothic genre such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Mathew Lewis, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Brontë.

Objectives of the course

• The course aims to introduce students of literature to the distinctive features of the gothic novel, an immensely popular literary sub-genre from the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. • The course deconstructs the narrative ingredients of this subgenre such as the supernatural (assumed and real), madness, and other insidious human behaviour in the context of the social, cultural and historical upheavals that were shaking up the social order of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. • The course will also encourage students to explore the different thematic configurations of the gothic such as the “female gothic” and “the imperial gothic” to understand the cultural and historical anxieties reflected and refracted in such narrative consciousness. • The course will also expose students to the complications in the gender dynamics embedded within the gothic narrative, and trace the literary and historical conditions that led to the construction of complex characters in this subgenre.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : UG and PG students of English Literature.Researchers in Gothic Studies.Faculty of Literature seeking specializing in Gothic Studies.

## Lectures

1. [Introduction : Key Novel](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/65dfaa1d8fa1) (YouTube)
2. [Gothic Elements; Gothic Sublime.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/1702bdb14fc9) (YouTube)
3. [Introduction : Gothic Terror and Horror.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/ed63a8345d75) (YouTube)
4. [Gothic and identities, Empire, Contemporary Anxieties](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/eae950257a3e) (YouTube)
5. [Gothic Forebonding; Affinity with the French Revolution; Types of Gothic Fiction](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/81a70b869c48) (YouTube)
6. [Ann Radcliffe, The Mystries of Udolpho: The Castle of Motif](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/00a734d35263) (YouTube)
7. [Gothic Castle, Gothic Energy, Gothic Sensibility](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/85c7cc76ff9b) (YouTube)
8. [Reading the Gothic Novel; Gothic and Family](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/81c3251c89a2) (YouTube)
9. [Gothic Domesticity and Patriarchy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/45f9537e502a) (YouTube)
10. [Gothic and Travel, Marriage, Discussion Questions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/8ceba78657be) (YouTube)
11. [The Gothic Contexts](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/697dd021f315) (YouTube)
12. [Plotting the Gothic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/d6fed46273f8) (YouTube)
13. [Feminine Silence and Marginality](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/48b9e5e2a44d) (YouTube)
14. [Gothic Landscape](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/6fb1972dba58) (YouTube)
15. [Historical and Literary Contexts](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/8fdabab657c0) (YouTube)
16. [Gothic Parody](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/e389641afcd3) (YouTube)
17. [Gothic Terrors and the Education of Catherine Morland](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/a0352863b178) (YouTube)
18. [Gothic Reading and Mentor Figures](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/8b239752a621) (YouTube)
19. [Gothic Parody and Female Gothic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/de95e7d33da2) (YouTube)
20. [Parodying the Gothic Villain](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/6b76075026fd) (YouTube)
21. [Introduction to Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/e6360e640589) (YouTube)
22. [Gothic terror, Fantasy and Violence](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/e604ce476f09) (YouTube)
23. [Gothic Transgressions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/8c427f96ac60) (YouTube)
24. [Gothic Displacement : Family, Childhood and Confinement](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/1ef2d553d958) (YouTube)
25. [Gothic Displacement : The conflict between children and parental authority](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/c6c1981ab50c) (YouTube)
26. [Introduction to Charlotte Bronte, and the plot of Jane Eyre](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/a140a1cc638d) (YouTube)
27. [Gothic Plot and Imperial Gothic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/c6697a962504) (YouTube)
28. [Gothic Subtexts; Madness and Femininity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/cf713ec62a0e) (YouTube)
29. [Gothic Rebellion and Symbols: Thornfield Hall and Bertha Mason](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/213b388a9ea7) (YouTube)
30. [Gothic Rebellion, The Domestic and the Colony](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/fd8aa6870d04) (YouTube)
31. [Introduction to the Christmas Ghost Story and Charles Dickens](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/0350e5e134fa) (YouTube)
32. [The Gothic Plot, Spectrality, and Commodity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/a7e898eb6119) (YouTube)
33. [The Dark Narrative; The Ghostly Children](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/8710e02bb149) (YouTube)
34. [Gothic City: the City of Spectress](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/32e08d94946d) (YouTube)
35. [Gothic Structure and The Consciousness](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/eac5088e861e) (YouTube)
36. [Introduction to Dracula, Literary Contexts and Gothic Monsters](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/93e847a2bc12) (YouTube)
37. [Gothic Sexuality, Tradition, and Metaphors](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/1436544e432e) (YouTube)
38. [Gothic Transformations and Narrative Roles](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/9cafe441a6f2) (YouTube)
39. [Gothic Symbolisms: Vampirism and residuum](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/d6f367e368fc) (YouTube)
40. [The Urban Gothic, New Woman and Gothic Monsters](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/b70dd7d3062a) (YouTube)
41. [Introduction to the author; the novel; literary Contexts](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/6ee19aeb9663) (YouTube)
42. [Plotting and the Female Gothic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/1e441e403d4e) (YouTube)
43. [Imperial Gothic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/a8510fa7aabe) (YouTube)
44. [Legacies of Empire and Gothic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/b2a3d2a74d76) (YouTube)
45. [Imperial Gothic, and the Orient](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/b41edf0f1ae5) (YouTube)
46. [Introduction to Doyle and contexts](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/9dc29238e7a5) (YouTube)
47. [Gothic Plot](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/2e09aa7d3437) (YouTube)
48. [Anxieties of the Past and the Future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/746051557560) (YouTube)
49. [Gothic tropes, landscape and cultural anxieties](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/c11f3bc02a02) (YouTube)
50. [Gothic Crime and Mythical Subtexts](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/56f1244530ab) (YouTube)
51. [Gothic Evil](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/23154e63720c) (YouTube)
52. [Introduction to Oscar Wilde; Literary Contexts; Plot of the novel](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/6cea9d8e9184) (YouTube)
53. [Aesthetic Gothic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/1982dbc5e648) (YouTube)
54. [Aestheticism and Degeneracy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/bbaf0b22eae3) (YouTube)
55. [Gothic Art and Morality](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/5512414eec00) (YouTube)
56. [Gothic Setting](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/8e96eb7da2dc) (YouTube)
57. [Gothic Setting ( Continuation )](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/7b95dd4fa7f2) (YouTube)
58. [Dicken's Realist Gothic 'Bleak House' Women's Writing](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/1250e421fba7) (YouTube)
59. [Lecture Overview](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/8edba0700555) (YouTube)
60. [Lecture Overview](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/63f0cfc4e9ad) (YouTube)
61. [Overview of Frankenstein and Jane Eyre](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/16602f46c573) (YouTube)
62. [Lecture Overview](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106177/58c8d4e88325) (YouTube)