Présentation

Exploration of the American Gothic tradition through a selection of short stories and The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)

Suggested Reading, Short Stories

Hawthorne (“Minister's black veil”), Melville (“Benito Cereno”, “Bartleby”), Edgar Allan Poe (“The Black Cat”/ “The Fall of the House of Usher”), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (“The Yellow Wallpaper”), Flannery O Connor, (“A good man is hard to find”), Brian Evenson (“Mylig Kommer”), Faulkner (“A Rose for Emily”), Jackson (“The Lottery”), Willa Cather (“Paul’s Case”)

Lloyd-Smith, A. American Gothic Fiction, An Introduction 810.937

Written exams, part finals, part exams during the semester

RSE: paper

Catch up session: 2h