ENGL C297 - American Gothic Literature

    Recent Professors
    Marilyn Brock
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2021
    Class Size
    45 students
    Credits
    3
    Spring 2021 Sections
    View Spring 2021 sections of ENGL C297
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2
    Description
    This course is a survey of Gothic literature, concentrating on critically-acclaimed novels written during the 20th century in the United States. Students will study Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's Beloved, The Shining by Stephen King, and Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides. The course will also study the 19th-century short story "Carmilla," which illustrates vampire themes, and compare the story's literary conventions to contemporary American Gothic themes.