Grade 13 - Electives
Gothic Literature v3.0 (Credit: 0.50)This one-semester course is intended to familiarize you with the different conventions, themes,
and elements of Gothic literature through the analysis of representative literary works. The
course discusses classics such as Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Ann Radcliffe’s novel A
Sicilian Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, Robert Louis Stevenson’s
Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It also
analyzes Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic short stories, Robert Browning’s Gothic poems, and Emily
Dickinson’s poems about death, mortality, and spirituality. Finally, you get a glimpse of
Matthew Lewis and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Gothic dramas, learn about Gothic parodies and
Gothic subgenres, and discuss contemporary Gothic literature. This course has 12 lessons, 5
Course Activities, and 5 discussions. Each lesson contains one or more Lesson Activities. You
will grade your work in the lesson activities by comparing them with sample responses. You will
submit the course activities to your teacher for grading.
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