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Leslie Fiedler, for example, in Love and Death in the American Novel (1960) says that American literature was from the first "a gothic fiction, non-realistic
The gothic novel was invented almost single-handedly by Horace Walpole, whose The Castle of Otranto (1764) contains essentially all the elements that
Writers of Gothic literature are often called anti- armor or painting) coming to life are a few examples -Poe developed the American short
popular works of stephen king and ann rice are often cited as examples of how the gothic permeates american literature at every level, including high-,
Gothic texts will be included in this thesis but also some examples from the later Radcliffe`s stories which are almost always set in “exotic” southern