Ghosts and the supernatural are a curious topic. The less people believed in them, the more they enjoyed reading stories about them. The ghost story was not killed off by the Enlightenment, and it was much loved by the Victorians.
In this seminar, we shall look into the literary and cultural history of all things spooky, covering various literary genres as well as interactions between texts and images / texts and music and discussing phenomena such as the stubborn survival and lasting appeal of the Gothic imagination under the conditions of modernity.
A substantial Reader will be available from the copy-shop Reckhammerweg in good time. |
