This is a guest post by Yaroslav Marichev. The United States is full to the brim with political, social, and thus literary potential for writers of the Gothic mode, and particularly as a Puritan experiment which has, over the course of several centuries, laid a foundation to a genre which literature experts denote as the American Gothic.
Tag: American Gothic
Reimagining the American Haunted House (Part Two): H.P. Lovecraft’s "The Dreams in the Witch House"
This blog is the second installment in a series examining American ‘haunted houses' in Gothic literature. As I suggested in an earlier post, when most people think about haunted houses they usual have a fairly standard picture in mind... the creepy castle, the abandoned shack, the old ruin. However, because America has a unique history … Continue reading Reimagining the American Haunted House (Part Two): H.P. Lovecraft’s "The Dreams in the Witch House"
Reimagining the American Haunted House (Part One): Charles Chesnutt & ‘Tales of the Conjure Woman’
In the tradition of Sheffield Gothic’s perpetual question “but is it Gothic?” this is the first in a three part blog mini-series about haunted houses in American literature. However, none of the houses I’ll be discussing are the conventional kind of creepy castle. Rather, I’d like to look at how the concept of the haunted … Continue reading Reimagining the American Haunted House (Part One): Charles Chesnutt & ‘Tales of the Conjure Woman’
Foreshadowings: Early American Gothic
Is it that time already? The Gothic Reading Group meets for its third session of 2014-15 on Wednesday and this time the subject is early American Gothic: a sub-genre of sorts that has generated plenty of critical discussion, but isn't always as central as it might be to the historical development of the Gothic and … Continue reading Foreshadowings: Early American Gothic
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