Date	Topic	Research/Reading Due	Writing Due
Sept 1	Course and Class Introductions
Sept 3	Fear	Intro to The Thrill of Fear
Sept 8	Library Introduction
Sept 10	Early Gothic	The Castle of Otranto Review by Sir Walter Scott Find one article that argues either for or against contemporary music/TV/film/videos/games.
Sept 13	Early Gothic	The Monk - Focus on chapters 1,2,6,8,11,12. (If you have an edition that divides the novel into volumes this translates as Vol I, chapters 1,2; Volume II, chapter 3; Voulume III, chapters 1, 4, 5)
Sept 15	Early Gothic	Preface to The Old English Baron - Clara Reeve Review of Lewis'The Monk - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Monk Lewis and his Coterie" - David Macbeth Moir A Vindication of The Monk
Sept 17	Thesis Development Workshop	Thesis Handout	Rough draft of Paper One
Sept 20	Editing Workshop	Thesis and development editing	Paper One. Bring three copies to class.
Sept 22	Aesthetics/The Sublime	Spectator 412 - Joseph Addison. Follow the link to further information on the Sublime at the bottom of the page as well Selections from:"A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin Of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" - Edmund Burke "On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror" - Anna Laetitia Aikin "Illustrations on Sublimity" - James Beattie The Mytseries of Udolpho - Anne Radcliffe
Sept 24	Approaching Research	Please have in mind a possible topic you are thinking of exploring for your research papers. You might start thinking about topics here.
Sept 27	Aesthetics/The Supernatural	"On the Supernatural in Poetry" - Anne Radcliffe "The Preternatural in Works of Fiction" "The Terrorist System of Novel Writing"
Sept 29	Melancholic Tradition	"Night Piece on Death" - Thomas Parnell Blake's illustrations for Edward Young's "Night Thoughts" Follow this link for long and short excerpts from Robert Blair's "The Grave" and more of Blake's illustrations for this poem. "The Pleasures of Melancholy" - Thomas Warton
Oct 1	Melancholic Tradition	"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" -Thomas Gray "Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude" -Thomas Gray "Ode on Melancholy" - John Keats "Come on Home"
Oct 4	Romantic Gothic	"Christabel" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Excerpts from Frankenstein - Mary Shelley(tentative)
Oct 6	Library
Oct 8	Romantic Gothic	"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" - John Keats "Lamia", parts I and II - John Keats
Oct 11	Conferences
Oct 13	Conferences
Oct 15	Discussing Paper Topics	Paper proposal workshop
Oct 18	American Gothic	Nathanial Hawthorne "Rappacini's Daughter" "The Spectre Bridegroom"	Proposals Due
Oct 20	American Gothic	"The Philosophy of Composition" "The Raven" "The Poetic Principal" "Annabel Lee"
Oct 22	American Gothic/Thesis Development	"Fall of the House of Usher", "William Wilson"	Rough draft of Paper Two
Oct 25	Editing workshop		Paper 2. Bring three copies to class.
Oct 27	Repression	Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Oct 29	Repression	"The Damned" - Algernon Blackwood
Nov 1	Vampires	"Fragment of a Novel" - George Gordon, Lord Byron "The Vampyre" - John Polodori
Nov 3	Vampires	Carmilla -Sheridan Le Fanu
Nov 5	Vampires	Dracula - Bram Stoker. Through Chapter 8.
Nov 8	Vampires	Dracula - Chapter 9-15.
Nov 10	Research	Meet in Gelman B06
Nov 12	Vampires	Dracula - Chapter 16-end.	Rough Draft of Paper Three
Nov 15	Sharing Research
Nov 17	Sharing Research	Bring three copies of the paper you wish to submit for possible inclusion in the University Writing E-Anthology.
Nov 19	Sharing Research
Nov 22	E-Anthology Selection	Papers distributed to you for anothology consideration	Annotated Bibliography Due
Nov 29	Editing/Class E-Zine Planning		First Draft Research Paper Due
Dec 1	Small Group Editing Meetings
Dec 3	Class E-Zine planning	Look here for the schedule of meeting times for the Final Editing Project.
Dec 6	Class E-Zine planning	Look here for the schedule of meeting times for the Final Editing Project.
Dec 8	Final E-Zine Planning Meeting