The professor has made the class Web site all moody and dark. The tagline for the class is "Mystery, History, and Bleeding Nuns." He ended his introduction with "drape yourself in black, lock the door, and do a bit of brooding." Gotta love it.
There's a ton of reading for this course. This week is Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe. Next week is The Monk by Matthew Lewis. (I've heard Paul McGann does a good film version of this, so I will have to hunt the film down for comparison purposes.) After that it's The Abbess by William Henry Ireland and Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin (the uncle of Jane Wilde who was the mother of Oscar Wilde). There's also the Oxford Book of Gothic Tales to get through.
Apparently, there are some podcasts on iTunes that we get to listen to as well. Go figure.
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