Gothicism in McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West(1985)

Abstract

This work studies Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridan, or the Evening Redness of the West through the lenses of Gothicism. Following elements of the Gothic (mainly American and Southern Gothic), the present work strives to give a better understanding of the genre and how its elements are used in order to express fearful threads of this vogue in the novel. The objective of this work is also to explain the origins of Gothicism and explore its elements that are mostly cast in Blood Meridian which is not a conventional gothic work. It also aims at shedding a new light to this masterpiece as a historical fiction as most critics label it and provide its fans with more information