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(ENL694) -  Τατιάνα Κοντού

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1897: A Year in Gothic 

Focusing on one single year of the late nineteenth century, this course explores the relationships between a blood-sucking count, a shapeshifting priestess of Isis, a psychic vampire, an invisible scientist, a ghost-hunting journalist and Sigmund Freud. We read a variety of popular Victorian gothic texts alongside Freud’s theories on dream interpretation and consider the many ways that gothic literature and psychoanalysis share common concerns and ways of thinking and talking about self and other, dream and desire, fear and release. Through fictional texts such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, Richard Marsh's The Beetle, Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire and H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man, we consider gothic responses to technological and scientific progress, and geopolitical instability. The texts we study were published or completed in 1897, so we use this calendar year as our orientation point to think through the many ways that gothic literature and psychoanalysis engage with realism and reality, with being in time, and feeling in and out of it.

 

 

Course Image: Richard Riemerschmid, Cloud Ghosts (1897), egg tempera on cardboard, w77xh45 cm. Google Arts and Culture

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Σάββατο 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2025