a) Research examples of the Gothic novel: Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818), Frankenstein, Dracula
b) What are the traditional devices of the Gothic novel?
c) To what extent does Bronte adhere to these devices? (Use quotations from the novel to support your position. In particular, closely re-read the ghost scene and the description of the setting and house.)
Example of relevant article:
RENA-DOZIER, EMILY. “GOTHIC CRITICISMS: ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’ AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY HISTORY.” ELH, vol. 77, no. 3, 2010, pp. 757–75. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40963185.
Example of relevant article:
Brontë, Emily, and Jonathan Kolstad. "Wuthering Heights." Supernatural Literature, edited by Thomas Riggs, vol. 1: The Dead, St. James Press, 2017, pp. 120-123. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3662100045/LitRC?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=82318a03.
Example of relevant article:
Haggerty, George E. "The Gothic Form of Wuthering Heights." Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, edited by Jessica Bomarito and Russel Whitaker, vol. 165, Gale, 2006. Gale Literature Criticism, link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/WXOZBT255314221/LCO?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-LCO&xid=65452b45. Originally published in Victorian Newsletter, no. 74, Fall 1988, pp. 1-6.
Example of an relevant article:
Cottom, Daniel. "I Think; Therefore, I Am Heathcliff." ELH, vol. 70 no. 4, 2003, p. 1067-1088. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2004.0003.