6 March 2014ENGL 2307

Midterms• Due next week (March 12)• TTU rules require midterms for freshman and athletes• All of you will get unofficial midterms on Thursday• Questions are welcome during my office hours (not during class time)• This grade will include the essay you turn in today and your participation up to this point

Next Week• Maybe This Time (Those of you presenting next week may want to meet with me.)• Remember it is an adaptation of The Turn of the Screw.• New Informal Writing• Posting readings for the week after spring break (online)

Informal Writing 5• Note the incorrect number—this number is also incorrect on the syllabus• Since your grade is for 10, but there are only 9, you get 2 free points!• Changing the process a little:• 500 words (still)• Choose a question• Describe the house and its significance for the meaning of the

novel.• Choose a character (Andie, North, Southie, Mrs. Danvers, May,

Dennis, Carter, or Alice). Explain how he or she is characterized and the significance to the overall meaning of the novel.

• How does the novel differ from The Turn of the Screw? What is the significance of the differences?

Adaptation•What do we generally think of when we think of adaptation?• Other adaptations:• Pride and Prejudice into (the novel) Bridget Jones’s Diary• King Lear into A Thousand Acres• Anna Karenina to Android Karenina (etc.)• Jane Eyre to Wide Sargasso Sea•Why?•What do these adaptations do and why do we read them?

Edward Bulwer Lytton• Ellen Smith presents

Edward Bulwer Lytton• 1803-1873• Another productive writer• Educated at Cambridge; a Baron; member of Parliment• Buried in Westminster Abbey (although almost not)• Friend of Dickens (common theme) and Disraeli• Style often made fun of…but is recognizable for its influence in later works• Began the haunted house tradition

Historical Context• “The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain”• First published in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1859• Our version changed considerably—came from 1865

publication A Strange Story; and The Haunted and the Haunters.• Very close in time period to “The Old Nurse’s Tale” (1852) and

“No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal Man” (1866)• What do we know then, about society at that time? How does

that fit with this story?

“The Haunted and the Haunters”• The Haunter• The Haunted• The Haunting • The Laying of the Ghost

“The Haunted and the Haunters”•Who is the narrator? •What do we know about him? • Do we trust him?•Who else is there and significant?

“The Haunted and the Haunters”•Where does this take place?•What does that change?•What else do we know about it?•What is the significance?

“The Haunted and the Haunters”• Does the narrator remind you of anyone? • Does the text remind you of anything you have read before (not necessarily for this class)?

Next Week• Last week before break•We can make it!• Keep focused and remember that there is still work to be done next week, even though your papers are turned in.• Also, remember that you can get up to two extra credit points for visiting the UWC about the Informal Writings as well.• One point per Informal Writing• Remember to tell them to inform me