American Southern Gothic

Introduction to the genre:
http://www.plymouth.k12.wi.us/OldSite/Staff%20Home%20Pages/High%20School/HS%20English/Cleary1/American%20Literature/Southern%20Gothic%20Literature.pdf
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Gothic
Wisegeek:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-southern-gothic-movement-in-literature.htm


review of Winter's Bone (also hand out)
http://www.gothic.stir.ac.uk/guestblog/winter%E2%80%99s-bone-debra-granik-2010/

Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare

Short analysis of the painting:
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/gothicnightmares/infocus/nightmare.htm#t

Edgar Allan Poe and Dark Romanticism

Edgar Allan Poe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
youtube film - introduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIp4m_v9xGs
Themes, motifs and symbols:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories/themes.html

Dark Romanticism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_romanticism

The Black Cat:
The text:
http://poestories.com/read/blackcat
example of an analysis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cat_(short_story)

Victorian Gothic Literature

Introduction:
The Victorian Era:
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era

Victorian Literature/Gothic Literature:
http://www.enotes.com/topic/Gothic_fiction#Victorian_Gothic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_literature

Bram Stoker
biography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker

Dracula:
summary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula
Analysis of major characters:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/canalysis.html
Themes, Motifs and Symbols:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/themes.html

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_mary/

Frankenstein:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein

It's Alive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H3dFh6GA-A

We are Seven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7Rc52RX3k

William Wordsworth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth