Southern Gothic

noun

1. a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery

Example Sentences

Tonally, however, it is very peculiar: It is undeniably Southern Gothic, but it has its own brand of off-beat humor.

From The Daily Beast

It is, alternately, a provocative and pensive soap opera that puts the gothic in Southern Gothic.

From The Daily Beast

Republicanism has become a Southern Gothic farce of paranoia, resentment, scandal, and hypocritical moralism.

From The Daily Beast

The life of this Southern Gothic belle makes the somber existence of Emily Dickinson look like a barrel full of monkeys.

From The Daily Beast

The method of decoration by shadow was, as far as we have hitherto traced it, common to the northern and southern Gothic.

From Project Gutenberg

The northern Gothic church is like a body with several members; the southern Gothic church is an accretion of beautiful atoms.

From Project Gutenberg