ENGL 224: Victorian Ghosts

1 unit
Prerequisite: Completion with a 2.0 or better of one unit numbered ENGL 120 to ENGL 189, or permission of instructor.
An exploration of elegies and ghost stories grounded in the historical contexts of 19th-century Britain. Topics include the rise of modern funerary culture; religion and spiritualism; scientific approaches to the afterlife; and the development of psychology and evolutionary theory. Texts will include poems, short stories, and novels. Miller