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- American Gothic Tales. by Various. Sometimes, the shotgun approach can be best when exploring a new genre. Award winning author Joyce Carol Oates certainly knows her way around American Gothic literature, having written some of its finest modern incarnations.
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle. by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson’s indisputable classic The Haunting of Hill House usually takes up a lot of bandwidth when we talk about her best novels, but We Have Always Lived in the Castle, her final work, hews more closely to the precepts of the American Gothic genre.
- The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings. by Edgar Allan Poe. Although he tinkered with several different genres during his short and troubled life, Edgar Allan Poe is synonymous with gothic horror.
- Wieland. by Charles Brockden Brown. Charles Brockden Brown may not be a household name, but his novel Wieland, or, the Transformation is considered the first American Gothic.
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western; Here Be Daemons; The Historian; Horns (novel) The House of the Seven Gables; The House of the Wolf; The House On Octavia Street; The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Jun 9, 2018 · American gothic. Publication date. 1997. Topics. Short stories -- Horror -- Fiction. Publisher. New York : Barnes and Noble Books. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary.
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.
a rich and thorough analysis of the American Gothic tradition from a twenty- rst-century standpoint, and will be a key resource for undergraduates, graduate students, and professional researchers interested in this topic.
The Great Gatsby is not a Gothic novel but, like many twentieth-century American fictions, it does employ Gothic tropes: the city as labyrinth; the imprisoned maiden/femme fatale motif;
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“This is the definitive anthology of American Gothic tales, the one that offers the most representative range of major authors and texts, in addition to excellent introductions and helpful annotations.
