Introduction to Gothic Fiction

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This course offers an introduction to Gothic fiction from its inception in the mid-Eighteenth Century until the present. We will explore how authors from diverse backgrounds writing in different periods adapt Gothic themes such as confinement, persecution, and corruption, with a particular focus on the monstrous and supernatural. Course readings include novels such as Shelley's Frankenstein, Stoker's Dracula, and King's The Shining, as well as short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, Angela Carter, and Shirley Jackson.