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Gothic Period of American Literature 1800-1850
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Realism
"the faithful representation of reality"
William Dean Howells
Mark Twain
Henry James
Joseph Kirkland
Historical Context
Effect
•industrial revolution brings ideas that the "old ways" of doing things are now irrelevant.
•Ideas of social change and revolution.
•Rationalism.
•today in literature we still see portrayals of alluring antagonists whose evil characteristics appeal to one's sense of awe.
•today in literature we still see stories of the persecuted young girl forced apart from her true love
•Tim Burton portrays sort of a gothic style in his animated films nowadays.
Gothic period of American Literature
1800-1850
a sub-genre of Romanticism...
Style
•short stories and novels
•hold readers' attention through dread of a series of terrible possibilities
•feature landscapes of dark forests, extreme vegetation, concealed ruins with horrific rooms, depressed characters.
•Mystery & Macabre.
•Death and lost love.
Edgar Allan Poe
Content
•sublime and overt use of the supernatural individual characters see themselves at the mercy of forces our of their control which they do not understand.
•motif of the "double": an individual with both evil and good characteristics.
love of atmospheric landscapes
•People now had nostalgia for the past.