Born in Providence, Rhode Island, McCarthy spent his formative years in Knoxville, Tennessee, the setting for his fiercely exuberant fourth novel, Suttree (1979). Each of his previous novels—The Orchard Keeper (1965), Outer Dark (1968), and Child of God (1974)—follows the… Read More ›
American Gothic fiction
Gothicism in Literature
The term Gothicism in its literary meaning derives not from the Goths, an ancient Germanic tribe, but from the sense of Gothic as medieval. This literary movement may be seen as a reaction against the rationalism of the Enlightenment and… Read More ›
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