English 487:
English Capstone Course

The Gothic

Fall 2005

Stephen C. Behrendt
319 Andrews Hall
Phone: 472-1806
office hours: 2-3 T, 2-4 R
and by appointment

A selection of web-based resources for the study of the Gothic, and especially the English Gothic of the later 18th and early 19th centuries

Here is a site at the University of Virginia with a very full set of links to primary and secondary materials on the Gothic. There are links to visual art, drama and theatre, and historical, critical, and theoretical materials.

And here is the annotated bibliogrpahy from the same website.

A fascinating site is The Literary Gothic, with its dazzling array of resources. This site has an extensive list of authors who wrote Gothic tales, with links to other sites relating to those authors and their works. There is also an alphabetized list of on-line Gothic texts. You will also find an excellent annotated list of resources for study of the Gothic genre.

Here is Zittaw Press's Gothic Literature Page, which contains links for reprints and reproductions, in addituon to a variety of secondary reserach and bibliographical materials.

Here you will find an excellent array of academic resources on the Gothic, including publishers' catalogues, home pages and syllabi for courses at other institutions, and other useful materials for the study of the gothic in its various forms.

For those interested in such things, here is an on-line discussion board devoted to Gothic fiction.

The Literary Gothic website has a page, with additional links, devoted to how to conduct academic research in the Gothic. The disclaimer on the main page reads as follows:

This page is intended to help people get started doing academic research on Gothic/supernaturalist topics. Please keep in mind that The Literary Gothic is not a "peer-reviewed" site.

Devoted to Gothic bibliographies and other research materials, The Sickly Taper is a site maintained by the well-known Gothic authority Frederick Frank.

This website hasis a bibliography on Gothic drama.

But here is an even better one, with many links, devoted to Gothic Drama during the Romantic Age.

If you are interested in questions that may help you to read and analyze novels more effectively, check out this site.