Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Gothic Undercurrents [Pdf]
This document is a guide to an Annenberg video, but it contains a wealth of information that is also useful independently. These thirty-four pages offer background information and activity suggestions relating to Gothic undercurrents in...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Gothic Undercurrents: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne is featured in this brief biography highlighting his Puritan family background which inspired his thought provoking writings of the nineteenth century. Click on "Nathaniel Hawthorne Activities" for related resources.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement:tales of the Supernatural
Lesson explores the genre of Gothic literature. Includes discussion of Frankenstein, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe among others.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Romanticism: The Use of Nature in American Gothic
This article "The Use of Nature in American Gothic" focuses on how nature is used in American Gothic literature.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements: Gothic, Novel, and Romance
This site distinguishes between novels and Romances and examines the characteristics of the novel, the Romance, and the Gothic novel.