Text Box:   EN 5245 Gothic Properties   Associate Professor Robbie Goh (ellgohbh@nus.edu.sg)   Semester II, 2008/09   All seminars Wednesday 6-9 pm, AS 5 #02-05   Seminar 1         14 January (introduction)   Seminar 2         21 January (introduction)   Seminar 3         28 January (Jekyll and Hyde)   Seminar 4         4 February (Jekyll and Hyde)   Seminar 5         11 February (Dracula)   Seminar 6         18 February (mid-term test; Dracula)   Recess: 21 February to 1 March   Seminar 7         4 March (Hound of Baskervilles)   Seminar 8         11 March (Turn of the Screw)   Seminar 9         18 March (Super Cannes)   Seminar 10       25 March (Calcutta Chromosome))   Seminar 11       1 April (Never Let Me Go)   Seminar 12       8 April (Asian Diasporic Gothic; Conclusion)   Reading Week: 18 to 24 April          Seminar Notes   Seminar One Notes   Seminar Two Notes   Seminar Three Notes   Seminar Four Notes   Seminar Five Notes   Seminar Six Notes   Seminar Seven Notes   Seminar Eight Notes   Seminar Nine Notes   Seminar Ten Notes   Seminar Eleven Notes   Seminar Twelve Notes Mid-Term Test - Past Questions            Primary Texts (compulsory reading):   Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Bram Stoker, Dracula Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles Henry James, The Turn of the Screw J. G. Ballard, Super Cannes Amitav Ghosh, The Calcutta Chronosome Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go   Secondary Texts (recommended: read as required, but not compulsory, and reading other texts as appropriate to your interests is always a good thing).   I.   Gothic Cultural/Narrative Theory in General: Williams, Ann  Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic Sedgwick, Eve K. The Coherence of Gothic Conventions Howard, Jacqueline  Reading Gothic Fiction: A Bakhtinian Approach Jackson, Rosemary  Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion Bakhtin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination Baldick, Chris  In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing Houston, Gail Turley From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics and Victorian Fiction Mighall, Robert  A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History’s Nightmares   (The last 3 are especially useful for a look at the gothic from Marxist/economic/property eyes)   II.  Theories of Capitalist Society/Property/Bodies (Not always focused on gothic or narrative, but certainly applicable to much that we will discuss) Marx, Karl  Capital vol 1, especially part I. Jameson, Fredric  Postmodernism: Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism McLaughlin, Kevin  “The Financial Imp: Ethics and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Fiction.”  Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 29/2 (1996) Thompson, James  Models of Value: Eighteenth-Century Political Economy and the Novel. Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari  Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Sassen, Saskia  “Whose City Is It?  Globalization and the Formation of New Claims.”  In The Urban Movement: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late-Twentieth Century City, ed. R. A. Beauregard and Sophie Body-Gendrot. Haraway, Donna  A Manifesto for Cyborgs Bendle, Mervyn F.  “Teleportation, Cyborgs and the Posthuman Ideology.”  Social Semiotics 12: 1 (2002) Agnew, J  “Home Ownership and Identity in Capitalist Societies.”  In Housing and Identity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. James S. Duncan. Duncan, N. G.  “Home Ownership and Social Theory.”  In Housing and Identity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. James S. Duncan. Harvey, David  “Contested Cities: Social Process and Spatial Form.”  In Transforming Cities, ed. Nick Jewson and Susanne MacGregor. Harvey, David  Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography   III. 19th C Gothic Novel, Individual Authors Arata, Stephen  Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siecle. Schmitt, Cannon  Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality Ousby, Ian  Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle. Jann, Rosemary  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Detecting Social Order. Senf, Carol A  Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism Pollack, Vivan R. (ed)  New Essays on Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw. Veeder,  William and Gordon Hirsch (ed) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde After One Hundred Years (Most of the essays in the collection, especially the ones by Veeder, Ronald Thomas, and Peter Garrett) The collection of essays in the Norton Critical Edition of The Turn of the Screw (ed. Robert Kimbrough) is useful, especially the essays by Eric Solomon and Mark Spilka.   IV.  Ghosh and Ishiguro, Race/Culture/Bodies in Asian Diasporic Writing: Nelson, Diane  “A Social Science Fiction of Fever, Delirium and Discovery: The Calcutta Chromosome, the Colonial Laboratory, and the Postcolonial New Human.”  Science Fiction Studies 30: 2 (2003) Romanik, Barbara  “Transforming the Colonial City: Science and the Practice of Dwelling in The Calcutta Chromosome.”  Mosaic 38: 3 (2005) Chambers, Claire  “Postcolonial Science Fiction: Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome.”  Journal of Commonwealth Literature 38 (2003) O’Brien, Susie  “Serving a New World Order: Postcolonial Politics in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.”  Modern Fiction Studies 42: 4 (1996) Ma, Sheng-mei  “Kazuo Ishiguro’s Persistent Dream for Postethnicity: Performance in Whiteface.”  Post Identity 2: 1 (1999)   V.   Lastly (and least of all), some of my publications on related topics: by no means essential reading, and only to be consulted if you want some (expanded) sense of where I’m coming from in the seminars. Goh, R. B. H.  “(M)Othering the Nation: Guilt, Sexuality and the Commercial State in Coleridge’s Gothic Poetry.”  Journal of Narrative Theory 33: 3 (2003) Goh, R. B. H.  “Reading Holmes: Capital and the Sign of the Market in The Hound of the Baskervilles.”  Semiotica 160 1/4 (2006) Goh, R. B. H. “Textual Hyde and Seek: ‘Gentility,’ Narrative Play and Proscription in Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.”  Journal of Narrative Theory 29: 2 (1999) Goh, R. B. H.  “Stevenson’s Financial Gothic: Money, Commerce, Language, and the Horror of Modernity in ’The Isle of Voices.’”  Gothic Studies 10/2 (2008) Goh, R. B. H.  “Shop-Soiled Worlds: Retailing Narratives, Typologies, and Commodity Culture.”  Social Semiotics 12: 1 (2002) Goh, R. B. H.  “Subversive Modernity: Coleridge, Gothic Imagery, the ‘Body Politic,’ and the Contestation of the Romantic Nation-State.  In Postcolonial Cultures and Literatures, ed. Andrew Benjamin, Tony Davies, and Robbie B. H. Goh. Goh, R. B. H.  “Diaspora and Violence: Cultural/Spatial Production, Abjection, and Exchange.”  In Asian Diasporas: Cultures, Identities, Representations, ed. Robbie B. H. Goh and Shawn Wong. Goh, R. B. H.  Contours of Culture: Space and Social Difference in Singapore (especially chapters 3 and 4).