<P> American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction . Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality / rational vs irrational, puritanism, guilt, Das Unheimliche (strangeness within the familiar as defined by Sigmund Freud), ab - humans, ghosts, monsters, and domestic abjection . The roots of these concepts lay in a past riddled with slavery, a fear of racial mixing (miscegenation), hostile Native American relations, their subsequent genocide, and the daunting wilderness present at the American frontier . American Gothic is often devoid of castles and objects which allude to a civilized history . Differentiating between horror and terror is important in the study of these texts . </P> <P> The inability of many Gothic characters to overcome perversity by rational thought is quintessential American Gothic . It is not uncommon for a protagonist to be sucked into the realm of madness because of his or her preference for the irrational . A tendency such as this flies in the face of higher reason and seems to mock transcendentalist thinking as outlined by "Common Sense (pamphlet)" and The Age of Reason . Also, one cannot ignore the contemporary Gothic themes of mechanism and automation that rationalism and logic lead to . </P>

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