THE WORLD OF IMAGINATION: Re-interpreters of the Gothic Genre

Terminale L – LELE : Anglais
Année scolaire 2013-2014
Lycée de la Côtière - 01120 LA BOISSE
Académie de Lyon
THE WORLD OF IMAGINATION: Re-interpreters of the Gothic Genre
Central question: How was Gothic Fiction reinterpreted and how were Gothic motifs revisited
throughout the centuries?
Le candidat cochera dans la liste des textes suivants étudiés en classe, deux textes de son choix.
FOUNDING TEXTS
 “Alone in so dismal a place”, an extract from The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole (1764)
 The mysteries of Udolpho, an extract – Ann Radcliffe (1794)
 “Alone, alone, all all alone”, an extract from the Rime of The Ancient Mariner – S.T. Coleridge
(1798)
REVISITED GOTHIC
 Northanger Abbey, an extract – Jane Austen (1818)
 Frankenstein, an extract from Chapter V – Mary Shelley (1818)
 “Man is not truly one but truly two”, an extract from Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – R.L
Stevenson (1886)
PERSONAL DOCUMENT
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Cachet de l’établissement
Florence DUPERRAY, professeur d’anglais