Ghost Story on the British Isles - AAA132020E

• Title: Ghost Story on the British Isles
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (7)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAA132020
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Petra Johana Poncarová, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (20.09.2021)

N.B.:
THIS CODE WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS who need a grade for this course.
The course is only open to DALC incoming Erasmus students.

Winter Term 2021
Wednesday 15:50-17:20
Instructor: Mgr. Petra Johana Poncarová, PhD.

The course seeks to acquaint the students with the rich tradition of the ghost story on the British Isles, from the
emergence of the genre through its golden age to the later developments, including weird fiction. The syllabus
includes works by the most renowned writers associated chiefly with the genre (M. R. James, V. Paget, A. B.
Edwards, F. E. Benson, A. Machen), but also less-known ventures into the realm of the ghost story by canonical
authors (W. Scott, Ch. Dickens, E. Gaskell).

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (19.09.2021)

• presentation (20 minutes)
• active attendance
• final essay (3,000 words)

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (19.09.2021)

6 October

Course overview, requirements

Introduction I

13 October

Introduction II

Creeping in: W. Scott

20 October: Household Ghosts

Ch. Dickens, E. Gaskell

27 November: Sensational Spectres

W. Collins, M. E. Braddon

3 November: Scary Scotland

M. Oliphant, R. L. Stevenson

10 November: Eerie Ireland

J. Sheridan Le Fanu, B. Stoker

17 November

no class, state holiday

24 November: Quaint, Queer & Exotic

V. Paget (V. Lee), A. B. Edwards

1 December: Fearsome Colonies

R. Kipling, A. C. Doyle, B. M. Croker

8 December: Discovering "Monty"

M. R. James

15 December: Into the Weird

E. F. Benson, A. Blackwood, A. Machen

22 December: A Ghost story for Christmas (screening)

5 January: Spooky Modernism

V. Woolf, D. H. Lawrence

Wrapping up