https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/L_ELMALTK004This MA course aims to explore the relationship between the Gothic and ideas of space, location and liminality. Gothic has perennially been associated with the unseen, the hidden, the taboo and the course will look to explore how this central theme has been present in Gothic literary production from the mid-Eighteenth Century to the present. This study will allow students to develop independent research skills throughout the programme and we aim to examine why the Gothic remains both current and important in culture today.The course will examine a range of texts from a variety of cultural domains, both literary and visual, to explore the connections between the Gothic and space. Our programme will be organised chronologically from the 18th Century to the present to highlight the development of Gothic from a popular form of literature that was at the outset seen as 'low-brow' and unimportant to (arguably) one of the most widespread cultural genres of literature in the 21st Century.One lecture and seminar ( 6 hours per week)One 4000 word essay.To be announced on Canvas.This module is part of the Master’s track English Literature in a Visual Culture. It is not suitable for students who do not have a background in Literary studies either at BA or MA level.MA/RMA students of literature. This module is part of the Master’s track English Literature in a Visual Culture. It is not suitable for students who do not have a background in Literary studies either at BA or MA level.Prior knowledge of a range of literary theory is essential for this course.