American literatureBritish and Irish literature Gothic authors/ghost writers| The advent of unauthorized authorship in nineteenth-century American gothic literature TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Dennis Berthold JangKi YoonThis dissertation proposes "ghost writer" as a new critical term for the "author" in ...
the Gothic, whose chief practitioners are Washington Irving (1783-1859), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), and Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849). These three authors defined a black thread in American literature that while not entirely original (borrowing from European Gothicism and certain American precu...
Louisa May Alcott (b. 1832–d. 1888) is among the most enduring of 19th-century American authors. Publishing in diverse genres, including fantasy, realism, gothic fiction, sketches, and poetry, she found favor with broad audiences. Her first notable success, Hospital Sketches (1863), reflected...
Gothic Literature in America: This chapter analyzes the emergence and development of Gothic literature in America. It explores the reasons for its popularity in the New World and examines the contributions of key American authors like Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe....
Perhaps no other American writer has influenced literature outside the Western hemisphere as much as Poe. His deft use of horror and the macabre, his masterful use of the short story and his creation of the detective story all changed literature as we know it and many authors today still fee...
Bakker, however, bolsters his ideas with persuasive readings of the texts, and his observations about Kennedy's gothic wasteland enable us to perceive a writer who might better keep company with T. S. Eliot or the subjects in Irving Malin's New American Gothic. Along with the Simms who, ...
A Life Less Gothic: Gothic Literature, Dark Reform, and the Nineteenth-Century American Periodical Press 来自 jewlscholar.mtsu.edu 喜欢 0 阅读量: 59 作者: SB Gray 摘要: Gothic as a genre is particularly concerned with identifying and exposing anachronisms in social law and behavior. Though ...
List of the most popular authors from United States, listed alphabetically with photos when available. For centuries authors have been among the world's most ...
A member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations, Robinson writes gothic page-turners set on and around Canadian reservations in coastal British Columbia. With many short stories under her belt, her writing has experimented with a host of themes, from psychological thriller to post-colonial ...
Gothic- gothic writers such as Ann Radcliffe, who wrote such works as The Mysteries of Udolfo, and The Italian, Matthew Lewis and, the tales of E.T.A. Hoffman all were influential. Gothic themes include solitude, ghosts, the natural world, darkness, death, doubling of characters and the ...