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 | | Course Description --"'There is certainly a pleasure,' with a fierce malignant smile, observed Victoria, 'in the infliction of prolonged torment.'" This statement, from Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya (1806), points to the Gothic preoccupation with pain and pleasure, violence and suffering, repetition and sensationalism. |
 | | In this course, we will examine Gothic literature in the Romantic period and contextualize it within the historical and literary moment, with special attention to the French Revolution, canon formation, popular literature, and gender issues. |
 | | 3/29 Charlotte Dacre, "The Mistress, to the Spirit of her Lover," "The Skeleton Priest; or, |
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