Short Talk Schedule for Gothic and Ghosts, Realism and Romance

Tuesday, June 13th:

• Short Talk 1: Michael Cox on the ghost story _____________________
• Short talk 2: Walter Scott's 'The Tapestried Chamber'_______________
• Short Talk 3: Byron and Polidori's 'A Fragment' and 'The Vampyre: A Tale' (Appendices B & C in Penguin Frankenstein)_______________

Thursday, June 15th:

• Short Talk 4: How Godwin came to write Caleb Williams (Appendices 2 & 3 in Penguin) __________________
• Short talk 5: 'Of History and Romance (Appendix 4 in Penguin Caleb Williams) ___________________
• Short talk 6: Stevenson's 'Markheim' (in Appendix B in Broadview Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) __________________

Tuesday, June 20th:

• Short Talk 7: Amelia Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach _________________
• Short Talk 8: 'Sheridan Le Fanu's ''Squire Toby's Will'________________
• Short Talk 9: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 'The Shadow in the Corner' ______ ____________

Thursday, June 22nd:

• Short Talk 10: Stevenson's 'Chapter on Dreams' (Appendix A in the Broadview Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)________________
• Short Talk 11: Bram Stoker's 'The Judge's House' _______________
• Short talk 12: Algernon Blackwood's 'The Empty House' and Richard Middleton's 'On the Brighton Road' ________________

Tuesday, June 27th:

• Short talk 13: W. W. Jacobs's 'The Monkey's Paw'____________
• Short talk 14: Mary E. Wilkins's 'The Lost Ghost' ______________
• Short talk 15: M. R. James's 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' ____________________

Thursday, June 29th:

• Short talk 16: E. F. Benson 'The Confession of Charles Linkworth' ____ _______________
• Short talk 17: Arthur Gray's 'The True History of Anthony Ffryar _____________________
• Short talk 18: Christopher Woodforde's 'Cushi' _______________

Thursday, July 6th:

• Short talk 19: A. M. Burrage's 'Smee' _________________
• Short talk 20: L. T. C. Rolt's 'Bosworth Summit Pound' _____________
• Short talk 21: Simon Raven's 'The Bottle of 1812' _____________

Tuesday, July 11th:

• Short talk 22: Hugh Walpole's 'The Little Ghost' ______________
• Short talk 23: Thomas Burke's 'The Hollow Man' _______________
• Short Talk 24: Letters, Context, Reviews and Punch parody of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (in Broadview edition, pp. 124-45) _______________________

Thursday, July 13th:

• Short talk 25: the 1886 stage adaptation of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Broadview edition, pp. 146-59) _________________
• Short talk 26: Elizabeth Bowen's 'Hand in Glove' __________________
• Short talk 27: Edith Wharton's's 'Mr Jones' _____________________

Tuesday, July 18th:

• Short Talk 28: Robert Aickman's 'The Cicerones' ________________
• Short Talk 29: T. H. White 'Soft Voices at Passenham'______________