ENGH 336: British Novel of the 19th Century
ENGH 336-001: British Novel 19th Century
(Fall 2025)
04:30 PM to 05:45 PM MW
Thompson Hall 1018
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British Novel of the 19th Century: Horror and Human Nature
Like many literary genres, Horror is named for the raw and visceral reaction such fiction is designed to evoke from audiences: just as Tragedy and Comedy draw tears and peals of laughter from us, Horror has us holding our breath and tensing our neck before scenes chilling and terrifying. Yet at the same time, the fear and dread in these texts have reference to intensely philosophical debates about morality, social hierarchy, sexuality, science and technology, and the course of history.
Beginning with Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece, Frankenstein, this class will have us analyzing and cross-referencing nineteenth-century classics of the genre both together in conversation and individually in our writing, revealing in the process how the hallmarks of modernity from this century continue to shape and complicate how we define, celebrate, and criticize ourselves as a species to this day.
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Credits: 3
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
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