It is frequently assumed that Gothic fiction began as a lurid offshoot from a dominant tradition of largely realist and morally respectable fiction Gothic's
points out, is 'a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation' (Fiedler: 1982, 29) If the American gothic is difficult to
The gothic novel was invented almost single-handedly by Horace Walpole, whose The Castle of Otranto (1764) contains essentially all the elements that
sources (Punter, Hogle) and it will try to define the link between the gothic genre and the literary term of “the uncanny” according to Nicholas Royle
The Gothic tradition is a body of literature fundamentally concerned with the boundaries between past and present, reality and the supernatural, morality and
in universities, literary scholars began to use the term “american Gothic” to define a tradition of texts and concerns that would collectively function as a
The Gothic, as manifested in America, could be loosely defined as a literature that voices doubts about America's progress and exceptionalism
literature, American culture, and Gothic fiction, especially that of the American South Academic Honesty and Definition of Plagiarism
America's gothic fiction : the legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / Dorothy Z Baker readers with examples of the early American literary type of the provi-
Maggie Kilgour, for instance, in discussing American Gothic literature and film in the cle for defining identity, as the failure to achieve the ideals of Reason
genre and to define what makes it resonate so much with readers To do so, we will develop Gothic literature, too, is preeminently concerned with the past, both as an Week 11: Southern Gothic (1st paper drafts due in class) Primary Texts: