Editing Gothic fiction (section)

===Twentienth-century Gothic fiction===
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[[File:Mrs. Danvers.jpg|thumb|right|[[Mrs. Danvers]] in the [[Rebecca (1940 film)|1940 film adaptation]] of [[Daphne du Maurier]]'s ''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]''. The success of ''Rebecca'' inspired a revival of interest in Gothic romance in the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patch.com/connecticut/groton/bp--more-classic-riffs|last=Clark-Greene|first=Barbara|date=2012 |title=More Classic Riffs |website=[[Patch Media]]}}</ref>]]
Gothic fiction and [[Modernism]] influenced each other. This is often evident in [[detective fiction]], horror fiction, and science fiction, but the influence of the Gothic can also be seen in the high literary Modernism of the 20th century. [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' (1890) initiated a re-working of older literary forms and myths that became common in the work of [[W. B. Yeats]], [[T. S. Eliot]], [[James Joyce]], [[Virginia Woolf]], [[Shirley Jackson]], and [[Angela Carter]], among others.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hansen |first=Jim |date=2011 |title=A Nightmare on the Brain: Gothic Suspicion and Literary Modernism |journal=Literature Compass |volume=8 |issue=9 |pages=635–644 |doi=10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00763.x}}</ref> In Joyce's [[Ulysses (novel)|''Ulysses'']] (1922), the living are transformed into ghosts, which points to an Ireland in stasis at the time and a history of cyclical trauma from the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]] in the 1840s through to the current moment in the text.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wurtz |first=James F. |date=2005 |title=Scarce More a Corpse: Famine Memory and Representations of the Gothic in Ulysses |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |volume=29 |pages=102–117 |doi=10.2979/JML.2005.29.1.102 |s2cid=161368941 |id={{ProQuest|201671206}}}}</ref> The way ''Ulysses'' uses Gothic tropes such as ghosts and hauntings while removing the supernatural elements of 19th-century Gothic fiction indicates a general form of modernist Gothic writing in the first half of the 20th century.

[[File:Weird Tales March 1934.jpg|thumb|left|[[Pulp magazine]]s such as ''[[Weird Tales]]'' reprinted and popularized Gothic horror from the previous century.]]
In America, [[pulp magazine]]s such as ''[[Weird Tales]]'' reprinted classic Gothic horror tales from the previous century by authors like Poe, [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], and [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]], and printed new stories by modern authors featuring both traditional and new horrors.<ref>Goulart (1986)</ref> The most significant of these was [[H. P. Lovecraft]], who also wrote a conspectus of the Gothic and supernatural horror tradition in his ''[[Supernatural Horror in Literature]]'' (1936), and developed a [[Cthulhu Mythos|Mythos]] that would influence Gothic and contemporary horror well into the 21st century. Lovecraft's protégé, [[Robert Bloch]], contributed to ''Weird Tales'' and penned ''[[Psycho (novel)|Psycho]]'' (1959), which drew on the classic interests of the genre. From these, the Gothic genre ''per se'' gave way to modern [[horror fiction]], regarded by some literary critics as a branch of the Gothic,<ref>(Wisker (2005) pp. 232–233)</ref> although others use the term to cover the entire genre.

The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in [[Daphne du Maurier]]'s ''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]'' (1938), which is seen by some to have been influenced by [[Charlotte Brontë]]'s ''[[Jane Eyre]]''.<ref>Yardley, Jonathan (16 March 2004). "Du Maurier's 'Rebecca,' A Worthy 'Eyre' Apparent". ''The Washington Post''.</ref> Other books by du Maurier, such as ''[[Jamaica Inn (novel)|Jamaica Inn]]'' (1936), also display Gothic tendencies. Du Maurier's work inspired a substantial body of "female Gothics," concerning heroines alternately swooning over or terrified by scowling [[Byronic hero|Byronic men]] in possession of acres of prime real estate and the appertaining ''[[droit du seigneur]]''.