LIT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: British Literature, Trait Theory, Southern Belle
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A good man is hard to find overview and background. A literary movement with its roots in the romantic and gothic traditions of british literature. Many overlapping characteristics of this genre includes: Isolation and marginalization: violence and crime, sense of place, freakishness and grotesque, destitution and decay, oppression and discrimination. Believed to have grown out of the reconstruction south: many stories take place after the economic turmoil of reconstruction. Many literary works of this genre include stereotypical archetypes, including: the demuse southern belle, chivalrous gentlemen. This genre relies heavily on imagery and symbolism, everything in the story has a deeper meaning. One of the key features of southern gothic literature is the grotesque, which is an element of the narrative that is irregular, extravagant, or fantastic in form. A grotesque character may possess an exaggerated personality trait or characteristic for the purpose of eliciting both empathy and disgust in the reader.