Contrasting Visions in Poe, Hawthorne and Melville

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Contrasting Visions in Poe, Hawthorne and Melville Gothic Romanticism has eight basic characteristics. All of Gothic stories carry most of these traits. These traits are hero-villain conflict; a person, place or object possessing a great power; a virtue is hidden in the story-line; personal magnetism is evident; usually includes some criminal act; "explained supernatural"; an enchanted setting such as an ancient castle; and extensive and insistent literary allusion. Edgar A. Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman …

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…also makes statements but on a different level. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works Cited Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The Birth-Mark". The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Nina Baym. W.W. Norton & Company: New York, 1998. 1261-73. Melville, Herman. "Bartleby, the Scrivener". The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Nina Baym. W.W. Norton & Company: New York, 1998. 2330-55. Poe, Edgar A. "The Tale-Tell Heart". The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Nina Baym. W.W. Norton & Company: New York, 1998. 1546-50.