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ENGL 343 - American Gothic


Semester Offered: First 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. This may also count towards the major in CAST.

Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: D. Skeehan

Prerequisites & Notes: ENGL 299 or two 200-level courses. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent.
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative American Studies



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