Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2022-2023
ENGL 337 - GOTHIC AMERICAN LITERATURE
Long Title: GOTHIC AMERICAN LITERATURE: TERROR, HORROR, THE GROTESQUE, AND THE SUBLIME IN AMERICAN CULTURE
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: Gothic America concerns the many instances of terror, horror, the grotesque, and the sublime in American literature, from the Republic’s troubled birth in the late 1700s to the onset of industrial modernity in the early 1900s. In surveying the theoretical underpinnings of the Gothic, this course will discuss race, sexuality, religion, science, and philosophy. In short, this course explores why America remains a haunted nation.