Terror, Transgression and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century

3 Credits

Explores why writers seem compelled to write about the gruesome, sordid, creepy, or just terrifying aspects of humanity through analyzing Gothic fiction in the late eighteenth century to the nineteenth century. Students will explore genres such as ghost stories or the supernatural, while also looking at a few texts that are considered "unclassifiably weird," to see how the Gothic and related genres emerge in relation to cultural and social trends.