SCHEDULE

20 Feb The Unconscious: A Primer on Freud and Jung: introduction to psychoanalytic literary theory; 19^th-century American society; Poe, “Shadow”; Hawthorne, “The Haunted Mind”

27 Feb The Buried Self: Poe, “The Premature Burial,” “Cask of Amontillado,” “Berenice,”

“The Fall of the House of Usher”

5 Mar The Ego, Id and Superego: Poe, “Imp of the Perverse,” “Tell-Tale Heart,” “Black Cat,” “Hop Frog,” “Murders of the Rue Morgue”

12 Mar The Double: Poe, “William Wilson,” “Man of the Crowd”; “Descent …into the Maelstrom”

19 Mar Our Shadow Selves: Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

26 Mar Repression and Guilt: Hawthorne, “The Hollow of the Three Hills,” “The Wives of the Dead,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,”

2 Apr Repression and Guilt: Hawthorne, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” “Wakefield,” “Young Goodman Brown”

9 Apr Expiation: Hawthorne, “Roger Malvin’s Burial,” “Alice Doane’s Appeal,” “Egotism”

16 Apr Imp of the Perverse: Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark,” “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” “Ethan Brand”

23 Apr Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

30 Apr Repression and Expression: Rebecca Davis, “The Wife’s Story,” Charlotte Gilman, “Yellow Wallpaper” (Moodle)

7 May Repression and Expression: Emily Dickinson, selected poems (Moodle)

14 May Repression and Self-Destruction: Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”: Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case” (Moodle)