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Carpenter's Gothic Study Guide

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by William Gaddis
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Literary Precedents

The Book of Revelations is the most frequently cited biblical text, and there are long quotations from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Like Bronte's novel, Carpenter's Gothic both draws from and parodies the conventions of gothic fiction. Set around Halloween, the novel employs several gothic elements: the isolated mansion, the mysterious.....

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Carpenter's Gothic from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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