The Literary Gothic

3 credits

This course will study Gothic Literature, its connections to Romanticism, and its later transformations. It begins with late-eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth-century novels, examined in their contexts, but also includes works from the mid to late-nineteenth-century, showing how the Gothic genre develops into the genres of ghost story, mystery and horror fiction. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***