![]() ![]() Lovecraft, the Providence writer whose stories once defined New England’s Gothic heritage. ![]() Texts include Cotton Mather and other Puritan divines who collected folklore of the supernatural the Frontier Gothic of Indian captivity narratives the canonical authors of the American Renaissance such as Melville and Hawthorne the women's ghost story tradition and the Domestic Gothic from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Shirley Jackson Stephen King and the horror boom of the twentieth century and writers of the current generation who respond to the racial and gender issues in the work of H. ![]() Three main areas of its focus are women’s representation as writers and consumers of Gothic literature, the Puritans’ fear of the wilderness and treatment of the native peoples, and the legacy of slavery and enduring racism. The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the history, nature and future of the Gothic mode in the region, from the witch trials through the Black Lives Matter Movement. ![]()
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