Teaching Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”

Leader

Eliza Richards
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
National Humanities Center Fellow

About the Seminar

If you have borne a thousand injuries as best you could and would like to avenge them through some close reading, join us in studying this popular Poe story, a Common Core exemplar text. We will probe its inmost recesses and along the way examine its context and the appeal of the Gothic. Grab a pipe of Amontillado, if you can find it; otherwise a bottle of Medoc will do. Take this flambeau, follow us, and watch out for the nitre. You needn’t worry about a trowel.

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Assigned Readings

1. Edgar Allan Poe Biographical Timeline
   and Notes on "The Cask of Amontillado."
2. "The Cask of Amontillado," by Edgar Allan Poe.
3. American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction, (excerpt) by Allan Lloyd-Smith.
4. Beneath the American Renaissance, (excerpt) by David S. Reynolds.

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