Course Packet

Sharon Achinstein, “Citizen Milton

Lawrence Buell, “Toxic Discourse

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (excerpt)

Byron, “Darkness

Siobhan Carroll, “Crusades Against Frost: Frankenstein, Polar Ice, and Climate Change in 1818

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Christabel

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, unassigned lecture notes [Milton and Paradise Lost]

Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny

William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (vol. 1, book 1, chapters 3 and 4)

William Godwin, “Essay on Sepulchres

Ihab Hassan, “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?

Daisy Hay, Young Romantics (excerpt)

Julia Kristeva, “Approaching Abjection,” from Powers of Horror

John Marks, “Clone Stories: ‘Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder‘”

Keith McDonald, “Days of Past Futures: ‘Never Let Me Go’ as ‘Speculative Memoir’

Robert Mitchell, “Suspended Animation, Slow Time, and the Poetics of Trance

Masahiro Mori, “The Uncanny Valley

Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology (excerpt)

Vladimir Nabokov, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Joyce Carol Oates, “Frankenstein‘s Fallen Angel”

Mary Poovey, “‘My Hideous Progeny’: The Lady and the Monster

Mary Shelley, “On Ghosts

Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mont Blanc

Anne Stiles, “Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde and the Double Brain”

Anya Taylor, “Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ and the Phantom Soul

Joseph Wittreich, Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings, “Preface

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (chapter 6)

Gillen D’Arcy Wood, “1816, The Year Without a Summer