ENGL 343 - American Gothic

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT

What was haunting early America? This course will examine the forms, preoccupations, and uses of the gothic in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Gothic literature stages the deepest anxieties in a culture and exposes our fears of dissolving or transgressed boundaries between the known and the unknown, self and other, sanity and madness, civilization and savagery, and good and evil. American, 1700-1900.

Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: D. Skeehan

Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.”
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative American Studies