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Apr 25, 2024
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ENGL052 PO - American GothicWhen Offered: One-time only; spring 2018.
Instructor(s): L. Heintz
Credit: 1
Toni Morrison argues that much of early American literature is a “meditation on the shadow … a dark and abiding presence that moves at the hearts and texts of American literature with fear and longing.” In this course we will consider how the gothic genre made its way into the writing of numerous 19th century American authors, such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Moreover, we will consider how the history of slavery and indigenous removal influenced the formulation of American gothic tropes, such as the shadow, the haunted house, psychological turmoil, and fear of the unknown. Finally, we will read from contemporary African American authors such as Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler, whose neo-gothic texts reimagine what haunts American literature. (H4; RC)
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 1; Analyzing Difference
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