Three Mondays: December 4, 11, and 18 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. ET Online
Lecture and Discussion. This live class will be recorded and available for later viewing.
"Fear, simple shivering animal fear, has them by the throat; which, after all, is what writers of ghost stories are after."
--Edith Wharton
The Victorian era was the golden age of the ghost story—authors such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sheridan Le Fanu, and MR James perfected the haunted house, the gothic tale, the antiquarian setting, the revenant, the psychic encounter, the criminal stain, the séance, the döppelganger, and the ominous dream. While the windy moors, undying passions, Christmas apparitions and paranoid governesses of the Victorian novelists set the stage,the Edwardians offered the ghost story its fullest expression, introducing the ellipses, blurs, suggestions, and incompletions of the modern world. Of these, Americans Henry James and Edith Wharton were two of the greatest practitioners of the twentieth century ghost story, breaking new ground in the realm of the mind.
This holiday season, join us for three evenings of phantom tales by master storytellers of the form, including A Christmas Carol, “The Signalman,” “The Jolly Corner,” “The Private Life,” “All Souls”, “Bewitched” and “Pomegranate Seeds.”
The class will be reading the books in the following order:
December 4: Complete Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens (9781853267345)
December 11: Ghost Stories of Henry James by Henry James (9781840220704)
December 18: Ghosts by Edith Wharton (9781681375724)
Three Mondays: December 4, 11, and 18 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. ET Online
Books Required:
Complete Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens (9781853267345)
Ghost Stories of Henry James by Henry James (9781840220704)
Ghosts by Edith Wharton (9781681375724)
Nicole Miller's prize-winning essays have appeared in Litmag, Switchgrass Review, New Letters and Arts & Letters magazines. Her fiction has been published twice in The Mays, edited by Jill Paton Walsh and Sebastian Faulks. She received an M.Phil. in Victorian Literature from Lincoln College, Oxford; a PhD in English at University College, London; and an MFA at Emerson College, Boston, where she held the Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing. At The Oxford English Dictionary, she has served as a scholarly reader for British Dialects since 2002. She edited manuscripts for Harvard’s English Faculty for a decade in Cambridge, MA and at Dumbarton Oaks after moving to DC. She is former Writer-in-Residence at Kingston University, UK and a current consultant in fiction and memoir at GrubStreet. She teaches nineteenth and twentieth century British literature, the contemporary American novel and creative writing at Politics and Prose in Washington D.C.
REFUND POLICY: Please note that we can issue class refunds up until seven (7) days before the first class session.
(This book cannot be returned.)
(This book cannot be returned.)
