Do many schools have classes about classic Gothics? Do you think that they should?

I remember reading Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" in high school for English Literature. It is one of the most famous classic Gothic novels and I believe it is taught in many schools. You can't really have classes on Gothics in high school, where students get a small sampling of different genres of literature, but it would be interesting to have a class on Gothics in college.

I think I read that book too. It was just in a regular English class and not a special Gothic class, though.

I don't know of any classes on Gothic literature, although there must be some out there. I think that classic Goths do make it into English literature classes. Someone already mentioned Frankenstein and there is Jane Eyre and Dracula (which I consider Gothic although not necessarily a romance.)

I think a class on Gothic Literature would be excellent in a Women's Studies program. So much of classic Gothic literature is about the image of women, the terrorizing of women, the man as savior, the beauty and the beast, the virgin and the whore, the hidden feminine, yadda, yadda, yadda.

I agree with you. Maybe we can have our own little Gothic Literature discussion group, focusing on the topics you mentioned above.

That would be fun! I'd be up for it.

The University of Southern California had a class on Gothic literature when I went there. Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to take it. But I had already read everything anyway.

From what I'm acquainted with, Gothic and Romanticism were put hand in hand when it was taught to me. The Bronte Sisters were one of the specific areas of discussion.

I think each literary current should be taught in-depth, not just a little brush-through. I know I would've enjoyed it so much better if we'd spent more time in the romanticism, provided it's my favorite current, along with its clashing counterpart, the neoclassicism.

As would I! I could even ask my professor for some of her notes and what not. I love literary analysis haha.