Gothic - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

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%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	14.00	100%	40%	0%

Data


Alberta	UW A	10	10	20
SFU	UBC A	10	0	10
UW B	UBC B	10	0	10