English Nea coursework

I was planning on writing about carmilla and giovannis room/the monk (still unsure) and exploring these novels through a queer lenses however i am leaning towards writing about insanity as i also take psychology and find the topics interesting as i could write about it in my CV later on! can anyone help me with books i could use? Thanks!

Hey! I would be more specific (If I was doing it lol) and write about female insanity, The Yellow Wallpaper (not really long enough to do) or The Bell Jar and stuff along those lines. This way you can discuss history and marginalisation, as with queer literature (I LOVE Carmilla omg), but pair it with your psychology interest if that makes sense. x

Yes yes I do plan on being more specific I just need a general overarching way of analysing the text to pick my books lol do you reckon I could do queer literature and maybe write a paragraph or two on insanity? How it links in to contemporary beliefs like potentially linking to stuff like bedlam? And do you have any other queer literature recommendations? I thought about the monk but the queerness isn’t the main topic

Hey! For classic queer lit I'd recommend Picture of Dorian Gray (also gothic so could pair well with Camilla), and perhaps Maurice (I haven't read the book yet but the movie's great).
Also, I was able to do The Yellow Wallpaper for my coursework and I highly recommend it - as it's too short to use on its own I paired it with another short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Making A Change (also about a woman with postpartum depression), and compared them both to Frankenstein.

Unfortunately we study Dorian gray as a comparison for our prose paper 💔💔 I thought about the yellow wallpaper but it’s sooo short do you do Aqa or Pearson/edexel!

Yes yes I do plan on being more specific I just need a general overarching way of analysing the text to pick my books lol do you reckon I could do queer literature and maybe write a paragraph or two on insanity? How it links in to contemporary beliefs like potentially linking to stuff like bedlam? And do you have any other queer literature recommendations? I thought about the monk but the queerness isn’t the main topic