LITERATURE 74 - Gothic and the Literature of Sensation

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Claremont McKenna College

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Staff This class will trace the origin of the Gothic from the literature of sensation and feeling of the late eighteenth-century, through its Romantic and Victorian embodiments. It will focus upon versions of Victorian subjectivism and conclude with literary decadence, and the genres of detective and ghost stories. We will read the following authors: Matthew Lewis; Mary Shelley; Jane Austin; John Keats; Alfred Tennyson; Robert Browning; Emily Bronte; John Ruskin; various Pre-Raphaelite poets; Walter Pater; Oscar Wilde; Wilkie Collins; Arthur Conan Doyle; Charles Dickens; Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Offered occasionally

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1.50

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.claremontmckenna.edu/

Phone Number:

(909) 621-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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