ENG 224 - The Gothic: From Horace Walpole to Jane Austen

This course explores the Gothic underbelly of eighteenth-century sensibility. It considers literary representations of terror, fantasy, sublimity, and the macabre, set in hostile landscapes of decay and foreboding. Over the course of the semester, students will examine the origins of the Gothic genre and come to understand its place in literary and cultural history. Together, we will read seminal Gothic works including Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, and Jane Austen’s satirical response to the Gothic novel, Northanger Abbey. This course fulfills the pre-1800 literature requirement.

Credits 4

Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality