週次
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課程內容與指定閱讀
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教學活動與課前、
課後作業
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學生學習投入時間
（含課堂教學時數）
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Week 1
September 13th
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Introduction
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Please finish reading Dale Townshend’s essay ‘Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination’ before coming to class After class: read Carol Margaret Davison’s essay ‘Gothic and the language of terror’
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Week 2
September 20th
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Davison’s essay ‘Gothic and the language of terror’
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After class: read excerpts from Sarah Kareem’s book Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 3
September 27th
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Excerpts from Kareem’s book
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After class: read a chapter of Angela Wright’s book Gothic Fiction
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 4
October 4th
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A chapter of Wright’s book
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After class: read a chapter of George Haggerty’s book Queer Gothic
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 5
October 11th
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A chapter of Haggerty’s book
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After class: read a chapter of Steven Bruhm’s book Gothic Bodies: the Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction
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Week 6
October 18th
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A chapter of Bruhm’s book
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After class: Read Joseph Crawford’s essay : ‘Every Night, The Same Routine’: Recurring Nightmares and the Repetition Compulsion in Gothic Fiction
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 7
October 25th
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Crawford’s essay
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 8
November 1st
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The Castle of Otranto
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 9
November 8th
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The Monk
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 10
November 15st
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The Italian
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 11
November 22nd
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Northanger Abbey
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 12
November 29th
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Frankenstein
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 13
December 6th
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Wuthering Heights
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 14
December 13th
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Jane Eyre
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 15
December 20th
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Individual supervision: discussing research topics with students
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After class: prepare for the mini-conference or write your term paper
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 16
December 27th
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Mini-conference: present your research to the entire class and respond to comments from your friends
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After class: writing your term paper
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3+ 9 hours
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Week 17 January 5th
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Writing your term paper
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Week 18 January 12th
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Writing your term paper; term paper due
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