Dates: 09/09 - 12/22
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6:00 pm 9:00 pm JRC 301

Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)

CRN: 42864

In Person | Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 301

Requirements Met:
     Global Literature

  Kaushik Tekur Venkata

Stories revolving around ghosts abound in the global nineteenth century. How did the "spooky" come to coexist in an era of industrial and "scientific" revolution? This course examines how the very things that British literature sought to repress continued to haunt it. We'll read canonical British texts such as Jane Eyre, paired with understudied global masterpieces such as the Japanese play Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan (in translation), to appreciate how 'ghostliness' came to fundamentally structure the nineteenth-century experience across the world. Through these texts, we'll learn how thinkers and scholars employ 'spectrality' as a critical lens to understand this period and its continuing influence.

3 Credits

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