Graduation Year
2015
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Reader 1
Thomas Koenigs
Reader 2
Warren Liu
Terms of Use & License Information
Rights Information
© 2015 Sacha B. Langer
Abstract
This paper examines the differences between the Romantic, the Gothic, and the Dark Romantic literary genres by looking at the manifestations of the trope of the double within the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. The notion of the individual versus that of individualism helps highlight the disparity between Gothicism and Dark Romance, and the implications that these differences hold.
Recommended Citation
Langer, Sacha B., "Defining Dark Romanticism: The Importance of Individualism and Hope in the American Dark Romantic Movement" (2015). Scripps Senior Theses. 636.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/636
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
