ENG238

Examines manifestations of the Gothic in literature, film, video, drawings and paintings, photographs, and other visual documents since the Middle Ages, concentrating on works by writers such as Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice. Subjects studied include Medieval folk ballads, the Frankenstein myth, vampirism, Gothic architecture, pre-Raphaelite painting, eschatology, horror in modern novels and film, and Goth rock.