American south moved painfully to industrialization and urbanization after the Civil War,during which the society was besieged by intensified contradictions,chaos and disorder.And this provided writers with a good opportunity to fuse Gothic style in their realist writings.Characterized with the multi-sensory narrative and rich gothic images in their Gothic realism,the novels Gone with the Wind and Vein of Iron,and the short story"The Displaced Person"represent respectively liminality of the urban space,the living predicament of the so-called grotesque people as well as the destructive power of the"Southern pride".In narrating urban landscape,characters and events,the works reflect the women writers'insightful observations of the south's ideological and social problems in the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
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美国南方/女性文学/哥特现实主义/社会转型
Key words
American south/female literature/Gothic realism/social changes
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