Fall 2025 Personal Curriculum: Monsters and Control - the Gothic.
Reflection
For the first time in my life, I lack the consistent structure I had grown accustomed to following seventeen years of education. I believe in the importance of education particularly through engaging with literature. Because of this, I decided to complete a curriculum similar to what I would have accomplished in English courses.
Query
Examining six books through the lens of ‘monsters’ and the feeling of control. Reading them in order of their releases in order, 19th century to 21st century, to see how classic gothic literature has changed over the past three decades. Looking at each entry into the genre and how it influences its successors.
Schedule
Section 1: Chronology, Introduction, Further Reading, Note on the Text, Author’s Introduction, and Corresponding Notes
Section 2: Volume I and Corresponding Notes
Section 3: Volume II and Corresponding Notes
Section 4: Volume III and Corresponding Notes
Section 5: Appendix
Schedule
Section 1: Preface, Chapter I - Chapter VI
Section 2: Chapter VII - Chapter XI
Section 3: Chapter XII - Chapter XX
Schedule
Section 1: Preface, Chronology, Introduction, Further Reading, A Note on the Text, and Corresponding Notes
Section 2: Chapter I - Chapter VI, and Corresponding Notes
Section 3: Chapter VII - Chapter XIII, and Corresponding Notes
Section 4: Chapter XIV - Chapter XXI, and Corresponding Notes
Section 5: Chapter XXII - Chapter XXVII, and Corresponding Notes
Section 6: Appendix
Schedule
Section 1: Introduction - Page 73
Section 2: Page 74 - Page 144
Section 3: Page 145 - Page 215
Section 4: Page 216 - Page 290
Section 5: Page 295 - Page 305
Schedule
Section 1: Act I
Section 2: Act II
Section 3: Act III
Section 4: Act IV
Section 5: Act V
Schedule
Section 1: Chapters 1 - 10
Section 2: Chapters 11 - 17
Section 3: Chapters 18 - 27
Section 4: Chapters 28 - 37