ENGL 343 - American Gothic

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
What was haunting early America? This course will examine the forms, preoccupations, and uses of the gothic in 18th- and 19th-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.

Prerequisites: ENGL 299 or two 200-level courses.