American Gothic Fiction

3 credits

This class surveys the significant Gothic tradition in American literature. Beginning with early masters of horror, Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe, to Henry James and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to, Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy, we will study the supernatural and science, faith and doubt, gender, sex, and desire. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***