Question
In a novel in this genre, the title character suspects the sleepwalking Clithero of the murder of Waldegrave. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this dark and fearful genre of Charles Brockden Brown’s novel Edgar Huntly. Works in this genre’s “American” variety drew on British novels like The Castle of Otranto.
ANSWER: Gothic [or American Gothic]
[10h] Clara, a member of this family, pines after Henry Pleyel in what is sometimes considered the first American Gothic novel. Theodore dies by spontaneous combustion in that Charles Brockden Brown novel titled for this family.
ANSWER: Wieland
[10m] Brown’s work influenced this later American writer, whose own Gothic novels include one about Clifford and Hepzibah Pyncheon.
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne (The novel is The House of the Seven Gables.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 50% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 57% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 25% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 25% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 13.64 | 100% | 27% | 9% |
Data
| NYU B | Arkansas | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Oregon State | Iowa | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Mississippi State | McGill E | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Colorado College | Missouri | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Ole Miss | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Texas A | Vassar B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas C | Central Oklahoma | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas D | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |