More Gothic Terms
The opposite of Literary Romance. Popular in the postbellum period in America.
Literary Realism
Title of the story where Poe offers the archetypal family with a hereditary malady and subtly connects it to the sickness of Plantation slavery.
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
Critic who argues that Eudora Welty took Faulkner's grotesque approach to representing women and ran with it as a way to show how the New Woman challenges older Southern ideals of womanhood.
Explained that the epistemically or ontologically unknown can produce a heightened state of horror or terror known as the Sublime.
Edmund Burke
Freud's unheimlich.
The Uncanny
Gothic sub-genre focused on swampy or ruined landscapes with an Agrarian past, on weird religions, and populated by characters refered to as grotesques.
Southern Gothic
Not Poe's Lighthouse. Author.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Author of "The Yellow Wallpaper." Critical of patriarchal American social order and of rest cures for so-called "hysteria" in female patients.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Argues that Lovecraft's work is refracted and reinterpreted in Ridley Scott's films to re-enchant a disenchanted world.
Brian Johnson
Stage when the child realizes their self-image differs from that of the world's image of them.
Lovecraftian philosophy, decenters the human and argues for our insignificance in the grand scheme of things.
Cosmicism
Where Poe attended college and where he attended military college.
UVA and West Point
Poe's ideal woman was pale, cursed, and deathly in aspect. Which of Poe's women returns from the grave to take over the body of her beloved's second paramour?
"Ligeia"
His theories helped us to explain the significance of the "once upon a time" beginning of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Specifically, how Irving subverts fantasy in the tale.
Bruno Bettelheim
In Freudian parlance, how an unnacceptable desire is redirected into a less threatening target during the Dream-work.
Displacement
Contemporary philosophy that argues for the entanglement of the human with the natural order and our always already cyborgification through reliance on technology.
Posthumanism
Lineal family in Lovecraft's story "The Rats in the Walls"
De La Poer
Genre of fiction Louisa May Alcott is most well-known for (aside from children's literature). This genre is very different than the sensationalistic, "blood-and-thunder" tales she wrote on the sly.
Domestic Fiction
Argued that Hawthorne, like Brown before him, repurposed Horace Walople's Otranto when writing The House of the Seven Gables.
Christopher Stampone
Psychoanalytic term for those aspects of one's self they resist integrating into the self. Often reflective of desires before being integrated into the Symbolic order through language.
The Abject
French literary movement inspired by Poe and spiring to Lovecraft. Including proponents Theophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire.
Decadents
Science-adjacent method of manipulation in "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar." Also, used by Agatha Eure in Alcott's "A Pair of Eyes; or, Modern Magic."
Mesmerism
Undead daughter of Sylvester Brand in a short story by Edith Wharton.
Daily Double: Name of the short story.
Ora Brand
"Bewitched"
Our first critic. "History and the gothic novel."
Markham Ellis
Name for the little, fleeting object of desire and the larger, ungraspable object in Lacanian parlance.
objet petit a and the Big Other