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Southern Gothic particularly focuses on the South's history of slavery, racism, fear of the outside world, violence, a "fixation with the grotesque, and a tension between realistic and supernatural elements". [4] Similar to the elements of the Gothic castle, Southern Gothic depicts the decay of the plantation in the post-Civil War South. [4]
The mummy genre has its origins in the 19th century when Ottoman-controlled Egypt was being colonized by France and, subsequently, by Victorian Britain.The first living mummies in fiction were mostly female, and they were presented in a romantic and sexual light, often as love interests for the protagonist; this metaphorically represented the sexualized Orientalism and the colonial ...
Frank Belknap Long, So Dark a Heritage (1966) Jane Loudon, The Mummy! (1827) H. P. Lovecraft, The Outsider (1921), The Rats in the Walls (1923), The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927) Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, The Bear Wedding (1923)
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 .
Collinwood, as represented in the original show by Seaview Terrace (later known as Carey Mansion) in Newport, Rhode Island. Collinwood Mansion is a fictional house featured in the Gothic horror soap opera Dark Shadows (June 1966– April 1971), [1] built in 1795 by Joshua Collins.
Dark Shadows (film) Dark Waters (1994 film) Daughter of Darkness (1948 film) The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll; Daughters of Darkness; Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes; Dead Silence; Death Becomes Her; Death Smiles on a Murderer; Deep in the Woods; Demons of the Mind; The Devil Rides Out (film) The Devil's Backbone; The Devil's Wedding Night; Django the ...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period. Frontispiece to 1831 edition shown. Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.
The genre was named by in a 1989 Meanjin article by Jim Davidson, titled "Tasmanian Gothic". [2] Although it deals with the themes of horror, mystery and the uncanny, Tasmanian Gothic literature and art differs from traditional European Gothic Literature, which is rooted in medieval imagery, crumbling Gothic architecture and religious ritual.