English Literature A-Level
Southern Gothic
What Southern Gothic means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Southern Gothic
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A tradition focused on poverty, religion and alienation, which McCarthy's novel is a quintessential example of, set in an unspecified, bleak Appalachian landscape.
Topics that use Southern Gothic
Related terms
- Aestheticism and decadence
- Damnation and Moral Retribution
- Duality and the double
- Fatalism and Retribution
- Isolation and alienation
- Isolation and Madness
- Jealousy and Obsession
- Moral corruption and sin
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