ENG-311 Ghosties & Ghoulies & Long-Leggedy Beasties: The Supernatural in British Literature3 credits
Prerequisites: ENG-299T (any version)
By examining the specters that have haunted the last two hundred years of British fiction, this course will explore the applicability of the supernatural as a vehicle for expressing transgressions against cultural and literary conventions. Canonical and non-canonical authors have imaginatively and effectively summoned the supernatural to animate tensions embedded in class structure, gender and family dynamics, imperial possessions, science and religion, realism and fantasy, and the permeability of language. Authors studied may include Walter Scott, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Riddell, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Graham Greene, A. S. Byatt, and Hilary Mantel.
