Literature Classifications

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Across
  1. 3. What the home becomes in the Female Gothic genre
  2. 4. Pinkerton detective working under cover
  3. 6. Witty dialogue common in Romantic Comedies
  4. 7. Doubling of female characters in Gothic tropes
  5. 8. Humans who can transform into wolves or bears
  6. 9. What the Female Gothic mystery often threatens
  7. 11. The hills of Tennessee in McCarthy's novel
  8. 14. The primary ghost haunting Southern Gothic stories
  9. 16. State where Carson McCullers' weary mill town is set
  10. 17. Description of the destined emotional soul
  11. 18. Term for high-heat or explicit romances
  12. 19. Provided by the happy ending after suspenseful trauma
  13. 21. The quality distinguishing modern romance from historical
  14. 22. The profound spiritual state in McCullers' town
  15. 26. Violent cave-dwelling man in McCarthy's Child of God
  16. 28. Experimental Harlem Renaissance work by Jean Toomer
  17. 29. Hidden societies that exist alongside humans
  18. 30. The common trope involving destined mates
  19. 33. The Rom-Com blends romance with this
  20. 36. Deaf-mute man in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  21. 38. A common trope involving a room in Female Gothic
  22. 39. Central theme explored through supernatural beings
  23. 42. The real horror often revealed in Female Gothic works
  24. 43. Nature of the rural frontier in Deliverance
  25. 45. Fading Southern belle in A Streetcar Named Desire
  26. 48. Hidden groups vampires often belong to
  27. 52. Recent surge of this in modern romantic voices
  28. 54. Blended with the absurd in Southern life
  29. 56. Abusive husband who brings a snake home in Sweat
  30. 58. Vessel used by four men in the novel Deliverance
  31. 61. A humorous trope involving a first encounter
  32. 62. Word describing Ballard as a creature of the wilderness
  33. 63. The thrill of the chase combined with enduring love
  34. 65. The type of terror central to women's Gothic writing
  35. 68. The liminal space where civilization dissolves in Deliverance
  36. 70. The house that psychologically haunts in Rebecca
  37. 71. The vine overgrown on sagging Southern Gothic manors
  38. 73. The cramped humid setting of Williams' play
  39. 74. Narrator who moves into a post office in Welty's story
  40. 76. Lead character in a specific Gothic narrative
  41. 77. Realities reflected in contemporary settings
  42. 78. The type of porn involving highly capable professionals
  43. 80. The psychological horror of the home in Sweat
  44. 81. Animalistic brother-in-law in Williams' famous play
  45. 82. A modern emphasis in Contemporary Romance
  46. 84. Type of conclusion found in the story Sweat
  47. 86. Gritty city setting for A Streetcar Named Desire
  48. 87. The primary mechanism love represents in suspense
  49. 88. The old woman who holds a secret formula
  50. 90. The decaying Landing mansion in Capote's debut novel
  51. 91. Characters physically or emotionally misshapen by their environment
  52. 92. Description of the heat in rural Alabama
  53. 94. The central figure in a Gothic descent
  54. 95. Officer obsessed with a gambling formula in Russia
  55. 96. Small-town nature highlighted by Eudora Welty
  56. 97. The haunting quality of Jean Toomer's work
Down
  1. 1. The literal and symbolic threat in the story Sweat
  2. 2. What Blanche DuBois uses to hide from reality
  3. 5. The crumbling settings replacing European castles
  4. 10. Revealed in quiet moments between action sequences
  5. 12. State setting for Other Voices Other Rooms
  6. 13. Central theme in the burial trek of the Bundrens
  7. 15. Author of The Mysteries of Udolpho
  8. 20. Term for a distinct category like Southern Gothic
  9. 23. Matriarch whose decaying corpse is moved in As I Lay Dying
  10. 24. Extreme descent of Lester Ballard in Tennessee
  11. 25. The physical trait Cyrano fears makes him unlovable
  12. 27. The beautiful woman loved by Cyrano and Christian
  13. 31. Hardworking washerwoman in Zora Neale Hurston's story
  14. 32. Status of many Paranormal Romance protagonists
  15. 34. The type of ending required in all romance novels
  16. 35. The forced type of this accelerates romantic tension
  17. 37. The escaped convict in A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  18. 40. Common starting status of a Female Gothic protagonist
  19. 41. Brutal history explored in the poem-prose work Cane
  20. 42. What the city men seek to reconnect with in Georgia
  21. 44. Quality highlighted in Black women during the Civil War
  22. 46. Worldview held by The Misfit in Georgia
  23. 47. Romance subgenre set in the here and now
  24. 49. Occupation of Elle Burns in An Extraordinary Union
  25. 50. The madwoman in the attic in Jane Eyre
  26. 51. Concept celebrated in Rostand’s verse drama
  27. 53. Swordsman with a distractingly large nose
  28. 55. Often featured in Military Romantic Suspense
  29. 57. Fanatical figures found in Flannery O’Connor’s work
  30. 59. Description of Faulkner's aristocratic daughters
  31. 60. Setting of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
  32. 64. Stagnant Southern settings for macabre tales
  33. 66. Classic supernatural beings in Paranormal Romance
  34. 67. The type of prose used by Carson McCullers
  35. 69. One half of a popular lovers trope
  36. 72. The organ often used as a compass in Romanticism
  37. 75. Term for closed-door or non-explicit romances
  38. 79. The type of rage mirrored by the madwoman in the attic
  39. 83. The fragmented stream-of-consciousness style
  40. 85. Former slave with a photographic memory
  41. 89. Quality of the domestic life studied in Why I Live at the P.O.
  42. 91. What O'Connor's grandmother finds at the point of a gun
  43. 93. Metaphor for the heart in the 1790-1850 era
  44. 94. The type of forests in Georgia described by Toomer