IVing to the last drop: 'we've got this President now..."

[alice wellintown]

Not sure, but I trust your reading of it and will re-read PSLC with P
in mind.  The gothic strain in American Literature runs from those
TULIP Puritans, Wigglesworth and Bradstreet to the Dark Romantics,
Hawthorne Melville, Poe, to the Modern and postmodern, including,
Queer and Feminist, African American, Truman Capote, Harper Lee, Toni
Morrison.

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:21 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alice--
>
> do you think Lovecraft's influence on Pynchon is just as great as
> Hawthorne and Melville's--I find good ole H.P. in every one of the
> four big books
> Pynchon is obsessed with inheritance something Lovecraft in his world
> is very much attuned to in all those tales of wretched new england
> ancestors and their sickly and morbid ancestors of today
> I, for one, think this a great avenue for study if it hasn't already been.
>
> Rich
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:19 AM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I
>> Two examples from his great grand fathers here. Melville and Hawthorne.
>>
>