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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.
- Eric Savoy
- 2002
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.
- 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.
Sep 13, 2013 · Summary. American Gothic fiction has only recently been considered worthy of serious study. Before Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), such works were greatly deemphasized within the assumptions of New Criticism, “Old” Historicism, the History of Ideas, and the theories of literature and culture underpinning those ...
the book begins with a seven-page overview of the American gothic that intro duces general aspects of gothic literature, such as its emphasis on the sublime, the distinction between terror and horror (which is poorly explained), and its focus on extreme emotional states, as well as specifically American cultural
American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation: anxiety about power and property. Yet the transatlantic journey left its mark on the genre-the English ghostly setting becomes the wilderness haunted by spectral Indians.
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14 March 2021. Hephzibah Anderson. Features correspondent. There is a surge in goth-lit that channels our fears and anxieties. Hephzibah Anderson explores how the genre's past and new stories...
