ECL 566: Literary Underworlds

Course Outline:

  • Ancient Underworlds (Gilgamesh, the Egyptian Amduat; excerpts from the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and the Penguin Book of Hell

  • Medieval Tours of Hell: Excerpts from the Visio Pauli, the Visio Tnugdali, and The Penguin Book of Hell

  • Dante’s Inferno

  • Excerpts from Milton’s Paradise Lost

  • The Hellfire Club and other 18th- and 19th-century Underworlds

  • Hell on Earth in the 20th Century

  • Sartre’s No Exit

  • Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

  • Terry Pratchett’s Eric (from the Discworld series)

  • Srikanth Reddy’s Underworld Lit