Popular writers during Gothic era
Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1765) – start of Gothic English literature
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, Edgar Huntly
James Fenimore Cooper: The Spy and any of the five Leatherstocking Tales
George Lippard: The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk Hall
Edgar Allan Poe
Format of literature:
Guilt, scary, ghosts, monsters, domestic abjections, slavery, a fear of racial mixing, hostile Native Americans relations, their subsequent genocideMELODRAMA – stereotype, moral polarisation, one-dimensionality, excess.
EXOTICISM – wild/remote locations, other cultures such as the Oriental.
TRANSGRESSION – fear of barbarism, of unleashing human passion beyond social constraints. Gothic’s operation as a literature of the unconscious, of transgressive desires.
ALIENATION – the genre’s interest in identity and subjectivity, but of an alienated self, set apart from society.
Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1765) – start of Gothic English literature
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, Edgar Huntly
James Fenimore Cooper: The Spy and any of the five Leatherstocking Tales
George Lippard: The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk Hall
Edgar Allan Poe
Format of literature:
Guilt, scary, ghosts, monsters, domestic abjections, slavery, a fear of racial mixing, hostile Native Americans relations, their subsequent genocideMELODRAMA – stereotype, moral polarisation, one-dimensionality, excess.
EXOTICISM – wild/remote locations, other cultures such as the Oriental.
TRANSGRESSION – fear of barbarism, of unleashing human passion beyond social constraints. Gothic’s operation as a literature of the unconscious, of transgressive desires.
ALIENATION – the genre’s interest in identity and subjectivity, but of an alienated self, set apart from society.
Bibliography:
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/append/axn.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100110131350AAXFxqH
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic_Fiction
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15638
http://www.jessicatiffin.org/victorian-gothic/gothic-literature/
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/append/axn.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100110131350AAXFxqH
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic_Fiction
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15638
http://www.jessicatiffin.org/victorian-gothic/gothic-literature/