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Southern Gothic is an artistic subgenre of fiction, music, film, theatre, and television that are heavily influenced by Gothic elements and the American South.
Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the Gothic writing style, unique to American literature. Pages in category "Southern Gothic novels" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic [1] novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of the 20th century. [2] [3] [4] The title is derived from William Marris's 1925 translation of Homer's Odyssey, [5] referring to the similar themes of both works.
The Southern Vampire Mysteries, also known as The True Blood Novels and The Sookie Stackhouse Novels, is a series of books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris. The first installment, Dead Until Dark (2001), won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001 and later served as the source material for the HBO drama series True ...
Second, Martin Faber is highly innovative in its adaption of Gothic tropes to southern fiction. [16] This, combined with the fact that its publication predates the earliest Gothic works of Poe, makes Simms, “for all practical purposes, the founder of the Southern Gothic genre.” [18] The novel, thus, gained Simms a national audience. [11]
The Southern Gothic includes stories set in the Southern United States, particularly following the Civil War and set in the economic and cultural decline that engulfed the region. Southern Gothic stories tend to focus on the decaying economic, educational and living standards of the post-Civil War South. There is often a heavy emphasis on race ...