The mist 1980 stephen king5/23/2023 In a physically untouched North American geographical landscape, void of the quintessential European Gothic settings such as abandoned castles, the essential Gothic motifs of despair and hopelessness thus become instead based on unique forms of American injustices, hopelessness, and suffering. Such somewhat less complex motifs of despair and horror in the European Gothic included but were not limited to: the abandoned castle, restless ghosts, and patriarchal aristocracy of the kind embodied in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Crow, points out in his 2009 treatise on the American Gothic that what we in the post-Civil Rights era now consider to have been abhorrent human rights abuses in the earlier days of the American Republic, assumed the role of many hallmarks of the European Gothic tradition not found in the New World (2009:2-20). Noted scholar of American literature, Dr Charles L. The United States is full to the brim with political, social, and thus literary potential for writers of the Gothic mode, and particularly as a Puritan experiment which has, over the course of several centuries, laid a foundation to a genre which literature experts denote as the American Gothic.
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