Southern Gothic

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noun

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

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Words nearby Southern Gothic

southerner, Southern Fish, Southern-fried, southern fur seal, southern giant petrel, Southern Gothic, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ireland, southernism, southern lights, southernly

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How to use Southern Gothic in a sentence

Tonally, however, it is very peculiar: It is undeniably Southern Gothic, but it has its own brand of off-beat humor.
James Franco: How Cormac McCarthy Changed My Life|James Franco|July 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is, alternately, a provocative and pensive soap opera that puts the gothic in Southern Gothic.
Inside 'True Blood'’s Fourth Season|Jace Lacob|June 17, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Republicanism has become a Southern Gothic farce of paranoia, resentment, scandal, and hypocritical moralism.
Run, Sarah, Run!|Michelle Goldberg|July 23, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The life of this Southern Gothic belle makes the somber existence of Emily Dickinson look like a barrel full of monkeys.
Chuck Palahniuk's Book Club|Chuck Palahniuk|May 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST

The method of decoration by shadow was, as far as we have hitherto traced it, common to the northern and southern Gothic.
The Seven Lamps of Architecture|John Ruskin
The northern Gothic church is like a body with several members; the southern Gothic church is an accretion of beautiful atoms.
Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3|John Addington Symonds