#  English 287na. Novel Anxieties 

 



 Instructor: [Beth Blum](/people/beth-blum)  
Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD  
*Enrollment: Limited to 15 students*  
[Course Site](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/140955)

 This graduate seminar offers an overview of seminal works of anxiety theory by Kierkegaard, Freud, Heidegger, May, Beck, Salecl, and Ngai, as well as in-depth analysis of modern and contemporary authors who thematize and formalize anxiety in their works (for instance, Joyce, Woolf, Larsen, Heti, Moshfegh, Andersson, Offill, Lerner, Cole). We will examine the specificity of modern anxiety by exploring literary responses to total war, technology, climate change, psychopharmacology, race, sexuality, upward mobility, and more.



 



 

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