ornaments
american gothic
p defining the american gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three hundred years as well as within the issues critical to american culture this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well known american writers from poe to faulkner to toni morrison and cormac mccarthy . charles l. crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing american culture explores forbidden subjects and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced .