Gothic Terms
A form or genre of literature that emerges in the late 18th century in Great Britain. Ian Watt calls this term an oxymoron.
Gothic Novel
The name of the tale's biloquist.
Carwin
Argued that the African American at the turn to the 20th century was plagued by double consciousness and a sense of two-ness in their identity. This two-ness metaphorically appears in his work as a veil between the White and Black worlds.
W.E.B. Du Bois
The lineal family in The House of the Seven Gables who are cursed by the Maules.
The Pyncheons
Black narrator and trickster figure in Charles Chesnutt's story cycle The Conjure Woman.
Uncle Julius McAdoo
Older genre of literature that predates the Gothic and the form of the Novel. Set in the medieval, or distant past, and populated with character types rather than psychologically complex characters.
The Romance
The primary British influence on Wieland.
Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
Argued that fairy tales externalize children's anxieties and offer an outlet for them to integrate their internal world and the difficult realities of the external world.
Bruno Bettelheim
Archetypal Puritan ironically named for his archetypical character. Also, the name of Hawthorne's short story about the Black Sabbath.
Daily Double
"Young Goodman Brown"
The figure eaten by the little urchin in The House of the Seven Gables. Represents Capitalism's consumption of the Black body.
Jim Crow
How the external environment in a work of literature reflects the internal, mental states of its characters or the events of the tale.
Psychologized Landscape
The names of the Wielands two hereditary estates.
Mettingen and Shuylkill
Argued that Hawthorne re-used Brockden's Brown's hereditary malady plotline in his novel The House of the Seven Gables. "As kinsmen, met a night"
Michael Cody
The economic system represented by Holgrave.
Capitalism
Lovecraft story set in a borough. Includes racialized others fused with fish-people.
"The Horror at Red Hook"
Horror is experienced after a monstrous incident or being is experienced. This psychological state is produced in the anticipation of experiencing the feared object.
Terror
The term used by Brown to describe the deterministic or involuntaristic aspects of his novel.
Mechanism
Discussed Cotton Mather's Magnalia and early Antiquarianism in the 19th century.
Lindsay Dicuirci
The literary genre or form Hawthorne describes House of the Seven Gables to be in his "Preface."
Romance
Story by Harriet Prescott Spofford in which a Black Panther stands in symbolically for anxieities or fears about Native Americans.
"Circumstance"
Literary genre popular at the beginning of the 20th century in pulp periodicals. Fused aspects of horror, fantasy, sci fi, detective fiction, and other genres.
The Weird
The sub-title and sub-sub-title of Wieland
or, The Transformation: An American Tale
Mentioned briefly as by Toni Morrison as the theorist of Social Death: the idea that certain groups were defined as outside of the social and political order in early America, including African Americans.
Orlando Patterson
What is the name of the literary movement to which Hawthorne belonged?
American Renaissaince or Dark Romantics
The presence Morrison calls scholars to read for in works by canonical Anglo-American authors.
Africanist or African Americanist Presence