Southern Gothic Learning Guide: Table of Contents
MoreSouthern Gothic Learning Guide: Table of Contents
IntroductionTop 10 List
Million Dollar Questions
Characteristics
Novel and Short Story
Irony
Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
Macabre and Grotesque
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" (1930)
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843)
Social Issues
Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (1955)
Violence
William Faulkner, Light in August (1932)
Eudora Welty, "A Worn Path" (1941)
Southern Setting
Decay
Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (1952)
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
Outsiders
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Civil War
William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust (1948)
Slavery and Race
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Top Authors
Edgar Allan Poe
William Faulkner
Flannery O'Connor
Tennessee Williams
Carson McCullers
Timeline
Texts
Best of the Web
Module Quizzes
But is it Southern Gothic? Identifying Quotes
Southern Gothic Obsessions: Themes and Symbols
The Who's and What's of Southern Gothic
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