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ENG 3360 - The Undead Eighteenth Century: Origins of English Gothic Literature

Credits: 4
This course examines the origins of English gothic verse and fiction, from the Graveyard Poets through Jane Austen. Attention to the formal conventions of the genre, focusing on the ways in which the supernatural mediates the rational and the irrational, sin and salvation, and licit and illicit sexuality, as well as the persistence of the gothic in popular culture today. Before 1800.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1050   
Fulfills: AL in LS Core
Three hours a week.