Attached are the texts we will read across the next two years - Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray are our exam texts, but I have added Frankenstein as some fab context - you'll be expected to know the difference between Victorian Gothic and traditional Gothic, and Shelley's novel will help with that. Many are available free online, or there are many audio book versions on YouTube if you would like the texts read to you while you sit with a drink in the garden! Have a listen and find a voice that you like.

If you can use summer to read as many of these as possible, you'll get a fantastic head start and find the course much easier. We can provide texts but encourage you to buy your own: second hand sacrificial copies from Ebay are best, so you can annotate them to death without guilt!

and for anyone who wants to read the first ever Gothic novel for fantastic context ahead of our Gothic unit:

Here is a podcast you might find interesting after you finish reading 'Frankenstein' - some uni. academics discussing Frankenstein. One of them - Prof. Mike Rossington - was my teacher at Newcastle University. He's a Shelley expert and absolutely excellent!

These are two film versions of the Oscar Wilde texts we read. They are excellent, text faithful versions and really push the Victorian vibe. Very worth a watch!

For some reason, TPODG is on the video twice - it is only 90 minutes, not three hours, but it's so good, you may want to watch it both times :)