The House of the Seven Gables

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Gothic novel novel

The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of guilt, retribution, and inherited sin through the history of a cursed New England family and their ancestral mansion.

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The House of the Seven Gables canonical 21
The House of the Seven Gables (novel) 7

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gothic novel ⓘ
novel ⓘ
adaptedAs The House of the Seven Gables (1910 film) ⓘ
The House of the Seven Gables (1917 film) ⓘ
The House of the Seven Gables (1940 film) ⓘ
The House of the Seven Gables (1960 TV film) ⓘ
author Nathaniel Hawthorne ⓘ
centralLocation Pyncheon family mansion ⓘ
fictional town of Salem-like New England seaport ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
firstEditionFormat print ⓘ
firstEditionMediaType hardcover ⓘ
follows The Scarlet Letter ⓘ
genre Gothic fiction ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ
romantic fiction ⓘ
hasPageIn Internet Archive ⓘ
Project Gutenberg ⓘ
Wikipedia ⓘ
Wikisource ⓘ
hasTitle The House of the Seven Gables self-link ⓘ
literaryMovement American Romanticism ⓘ
mainCharacter Clifford Pyncheon ⓘ
Hepzibah Pyncheon ⓘ
Holgrave ⓘ
Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon ⓘ
Phoebe Pyncheon ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person omniscient ⓘ
notableFor depiction of a haunted New England mansion ⓘ
exploration of moral and psychological effects of ancestral guilt ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
partOf 19th-century American literature canon ⓘ
placeOfPublication Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ
surface form: Boston
publicationDate 1851 ⓘ
publisher Ticknor, Reed & Fields ⓘ
surface form: Ticknor, Reed and Fields
setInCountry United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
setInPeriod 19th century ⓘ
setInRegion New England ⓘ
theme class and social change ⓘ
decay and renewal ⓘ
family curse ⓘ
guilt ⓘ
inherited sin ⓘ
retribution ⓘ
the burden of the past ⓘ

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