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   Jun 3, 2024 · Grant Wood's American Gothic, completed in 1930 and acquired by the Chicago Art Institute, captures a time when America was transitioning from a predominantly rural society to an urban one.

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   Jun 3, 2024 · When “American Gothic” was first displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930, it stirred up a wide range of reactions. The painting won a bronze medal and a cash prize of $300, establishing Grant Wood as a prominent figure in American art.

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   Jun 5, 2024 · A spunky American girl falls into the clutches of a Revolutionary atheist and member of the Illuminati. Dorval; or, The Speculator by Sally S.B.K. Wood Publication Date: 1801

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   Jun 5, 2024 · A collection of short stories, including a number of Gothic tales, that explore the weird and curious incidents in the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War.

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   Jun 5, 2024 · American Gothic Writers, 1902-1928 Biography and Introduction Learn more about Charles Brockden Brown, including biographical details, historical context and more.

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   1 day ago · Each spelunker wore a headlamp, and each had gone so far as to belly crawl through a tight fissure at the urging of their guide. ..... Reaching ambitiously for jutting rock beyond her grasp, she heard a sickly crumble below and began to fall.

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   What is a Gothic setting?

   • Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. The setting typically includes physical reminders of the past, especially through ruined buildings which stand as proof of a previously thriving world which is decaying in the present.

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   Why are Gothic ruins so popular?

   • Gothic ruins invoke multiple linked emotions by representing inevitable decay and the collapse of human creations – hence the urge to add fake ruins as eyecatchers in English landscape parks. Placing a story in a Gothic building serves several purposes.

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   Who was the most influential Gothic writer?

   • The most influential Gothic writer from this period was the American Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote numerous short stories and poems reinterpreting Gothic tropes. His story "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) revisits classic Gothic tropes of aristocratic decay, death, and madness. Poe is now considered the master of the American Gothic.

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   Why was the Gothic a counterbalance?

   • As Carol Senf has stated, "the Gothic was... a counterbalance produced by writers and thinkers who felt limited by such a confident worldview and recognized that the power of the past, the irrational, and the violent continue to sway in the world."

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   Where did Gothic fiction come from?

   • Scotland is the location of what was probably the world's first postgraduate program to consider the genre exclusively: the MLitt in the Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling, first recruited in 1996. ^ "The Castle of Otranto: The creepy tale that launched gothic fiction".

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   How did Gothic literature start?

   • The Gothic often uses scenery of decay, death, and morbidity to achieve its effects (especially in the Italian Horror school of Gothic). However, Gothic literature was not the origin of this tradition; it was far older. The corpses, skeletons, and churchyards so commonly associated with early Gothic works were popularized by the Graveyard poets.

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   3 days ago · Characteristics The ruins of Wolf's Crag castle in Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. The setting typically includes physical reminders of the past, especially through ruined buildings which stand as proof of a previously thriving world which ...