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- Gothic literature continues to provide an alternative reading of American culture in the volatile decades from the 1960s to the present. As new voices from minority groups have emerged, they have often expressed themselves though the Gothic, while changing and enriching the Gothic tradition.
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American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality versus the irrational, puritanism, guilt, the uncanny (das unheimliche), ab-humans, ghosts, and monsters. Analysis of major themes.
Jun 5, 2024 · This graph charts the use of the word Gothic in English and American literature from 1760 to 2010, with peak usage of the term in 1858!
- Jennifer Ferguson
- 2018
May 28, 2006 · Summary. From the turn of the eighteenth into the nineteenth century and the beginnings of a distinctive American literature, the Gothic has stubbornly flourished in the United States. Its cultural role, though, has been entirely paradoxical: an optimistic country founded upon the Enlightenment principles of liberty and “the pursuit of ...
- Eric Savoy
- 2002
May 4, 2019 · While related to both the English and American Gothic tradition, Southern Gothic is uniquely rooted in the South’s tensions and aberrations. During the 20th century, Charles Crow has noted, the South became “the principal region of American Gothic” in literature.
Gothic literature continues to provide an alternative reading of American culture in the volatile decades from the 1960s to the present. As new voices from minority groups have emerged, they have often expressed themselves though the Gothic, while changing and enriching the Gothic tradition.
- Charles L. Crow
- 1
Summary. The collision between Enlightenment and revolutionary Romantic values that produced the Gothic also produced the United States. American Gothic disrupts the dominant American narrative of progress, and reveals what is hidden or omitted by this narrative.
Among the most striking features of the Gothic genre is the style of its architectural settings. In early Gothic these were often medievalist, involving ancient stone buildings with elaborate, "Gothic" arches, buttresses, passageways, and crypts.
