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While traditional Romanticist in the United States found beauty, hope, and the sublime in nature Dark Romanticist focused in their texts on haunted and tormented soul, nightmares, and supernatural horrors. Their texts acted as a foil to the more optimistic stance of Romantic and Transcendentalist literature. While both published their works in the American Renaissance, Dark Romanticists presented a much more cynical take on nature, humanity, and society. In this seminar students will explore the genre’s origins and its impact on U.S.-American literary culture. Furthermore, we will discuss a variety of works from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. The goal of this seminar is to trace the development of the genre alongside a number of fictional and non-fictional works and to find out how Dark Romanticist have left their traces in modern horror fiction. |
