ENGL 3630 - Haunted Texts

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher.
Description
Ghost stories, gothic fiction, and other literary nightmares. This course explores the haunted spaces and macabre visions found throughout Anglophone writing. Since ghost fictions so often reflect the anxieties that societies and individuals must address, we examine haunted texts in order to uncover the stories they tell about the cultures that produce them. Emphasis on writers such as Poe, Collins, James, Bronte, Bowen, Jackson, Lovecraft, Rushdie, and Atwood.