Fall Semester Reading List

When you're a a grad student in an English program, there's a lot of reading. Like, a lot. And a lot of writing, but...the all the books!

Because of my assigned enrollment date, classes filled up quickly and it was the literature classes (in my world, electives) that were ultimately available. (New student = no credits = can take anything and still have it count for the degree.) There were actually quite a few classes still available, but the classes available were electives, as opposed to the required classes for my concentration. I registered for three classes that looked promising.

English 560 - Literary Criticism:

• Charles Bressler's Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
• Martin Hallett's Folk and Fairy Tales: An Introductory Anthology

English 641 - Eighteenth-century Literature:

• Nancy Baker's Research Guide for Undergraduate Students (recommended)
• Deborah Fisk's The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
• Scott McMillan's Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy
• Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso

For English 655 - The Novel and Its Tradition (we're focusing on the gothic):

• Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
• Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
• Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca
• Matthew Lewis' The Monk
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
• Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto