LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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a sense of style and architecture
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a sense of place and belonging
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a sense of isolation and longing
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a sense of peace and quiet
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Detailed explanation-1: -Southern Gothic is a mode or genre prevalent in literature from the early 19th century to this day. Characteristics of Southern Gothic include the presence of irrational, horrific, and transgressive thoughts, desires, and impulses; grotesque characters; dark humor, and an overall angst-ridden sense of alienation.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main characters of southern gothic stories are often strangers in strange places, small towns in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana or Georgia (as in the case of Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor’s work) inhabited by the most compelling band of outsiders you ever thought possible.
Detailed explanation-3: -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".
Detailed explanation-4: -The setting of most of the Southern Gothic novels is the South. The writers mostly set their stories either on a plantation or some old slave quarters. Some of their stories also take place in the broken-down small towns in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana or Georgia.