Magistrale Fall 2021 American Narratives of Contagion and Disease Anno Accademico 2021-2022 AMERICAN LITERATURE (SECOND YEAR), L. MAGISTRALE Prof. Sonia Di Loreto – Fall semester Date                                Texts /topics                                                     Materials/presentations 14 October   TH. Intro – Gothic and Contagion Articles to be read before classes start: 1)Jesmyn Ward, “On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy […]

I am now to relate some strange and remarkable passages.  There was a company of people [Indians] lived in the country up above in the River of Connecticut a great way from their trading house there…About a thousand of them had enclosed themselves in a fort which they had strongly palisadoed about.  Three or four […]

In light of our individual, collective, and global experience with the virus Covid-19, this class will aim at reflecting on the relations among disease, contagion and literary representations in the United States culture. In Europe and in North America the decades between the end of the 18th century and the early 19th century have often […]