The class will focus on the ghostly, the haunted, the gothic, and the uncanny in Victorian texts from the U. K. and across the British Empire. We will pay close attention to the intersecting meanings of form and content in works of fiction, poetry, drama, and more—all of which feature hauntings of one kind or another. We will ask how the relationships between past and present, self and other, inform the fears that take flight in Victorian ghost stories. Our approach to the materials will emphasize the multiplicity of British identities and personal selfhood in a global world. We will connect prominent Victorian ideologies about and realities of gender, imperialism, religion, race, class, and identity to the fears, questions, and hopes that “haunt” so many of the Victorian literary texts that engage with the weird, the wild, and the wicked.