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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.
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Gothic's representations of extreme circumstances of terror, oppression and persecution, darkness and obscurity of setting, and innocence betrayed are considered to begin with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), and to reach a crescendo in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and Matthew G. "Monk" Lewis's The Monk (1796).
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5 days ago · About the Rise of Gothic Fiction; A Gothic Timeline; Gothic Fiction from the 18th Century to the Romantics. English Gothic Fiction: 1764-1832 ; American Gothic Fiction: 1764-1832 ; Wieland, 1798; Ormond, 1799; Edgar Huntly, 1799; Arthur Mervyn, 1799 & Jane Talbot, 1801; Julia, and the Illuminated Baron, 1800 & Dorval; or, The Speculator, 1801
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Oct 8, 2004 · American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction. Allan Lloyd-Smith. A&C Black, Oct 8, 2004 - Literary Criticism - 197 pages. Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to...
5 days ago · American Gothic Fiction: 1833-1901. The Rise of Gothic Fiction in England & the United States. The Minister's Black Veil, 1832; Young Goodman Brown, 1835; The Prophetic Pictures, 1837; The House of the Seven Gables, 1851 & The Marble Faun, 1860. Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864. Below are the Gothic titles by this author.
