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The Gothic often uses scenery of decay, death, and morbidity to achieve its effects (especially in the Italian Horror school of Gothic). However, Gothic literature was not the origin of this tradition; it was far older. The corpses, skeletons, and churchyards so commonly associated with early Gothic works were popularized by the Graveyard poets.
Wieland is sometimes considered the first American Gothic novel. Wieland is often categorized under several sub-genres including gothic fiction, horror fiction, psychological fiction and epistolary fiction, which are listed at Project Gutenberg. Major themes include religious fanaticism, sensationalist psychology, and voice and perception.
Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror or Gothic romanticism) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror fiction and romanticism Contents: Top
Writers of works in the Gothic fiction genre. Pages in category "Writers of Gothic fiction" The following 156 pages are in this category, out of 156 total. ...
Early American Gothic writers were particularly concerned with frontier wilderness anxiety and the lasting effects of a Puritanical society. " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " by Washington Irving is perhaps the most famous example of American Colonial -era Gothic fiction.
Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker is a 1799 Gothic novel set in rural Pennsylvania in 1787 by the American author Charles Brockden Brown. The novel was published by Hugh Maxwell. It is considered an example of early American gothic literature, with themes such as wilderness anxiety, the supernatural, darkness, and irrational thought ...
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Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist, a pioneer of Gothic fiction, and a minor poet.Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s. [1]