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===Twentienth-century Gothic fiction===
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[[File:Mrs. Danvers.jpg|thumb|right|[[Mrs. Danvers]] in the [[Rebecca (1940 film)|1940 film adaptation]] of [[Daphne du Maurier]]'s ''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]''. The success of ''Rebecca'' inspired a revival of interest in Gothic romance in the 20th century<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patch.com/connecticut/groton/bp--more-classic-riffs|last=Clark-Greene|first=Barbara|date=2012 |title=More Classic Riffs |website=[[Patch Media]]}}</ref>]]
Gothic fiction and [[Modernism]] influenced each other. This is often evident in detective fiction, horror fiction, and science fiction, but the influence of the Gothic can also be seen in the high literary Modernism of the 20th century. [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' (1890) initiated a re-working of older literary forms and myths that became common in the work of [[W. B. Yeats]], [[T. S. Eliot]], [[James Joyce]], [[Virginia Woolf]], [[Shirley Jackson]], and [[Angela Carter]], among others.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hansen |first=Jim |date=2011 |title=A Nightmare on the Brain: Gothic Suspicion and Literary Modernism |journal=Literature Compass |volume=8 |issue=9 |pages=635–644 |doi=10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00763.x}}</ref> In Joyce's [[Ulysses (novel)|''Ulysses'']] (1922), the living are transformed into ghosts, which points to an Ireland in stasis at the time and a history of cyclical trauma from the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]] in the 1840s through to the current moment in the text.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wurtz |first=James F. |date=2005 |title=Scarce More a Corpse: Famine Memory and Representations of the Gothic in Ulysses |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |volume=29 |pages=102–117 |doi=10.2979/JML.2005.29.1.102 |s2cid=161368941 |id={{ProQuest|201671206}}}}</ref> The way ''Ulysses'' uses Gothic tropes such as ghosts and hauntings while removing the supernatural elements of 19th-century Gothic fiction indicates a general form of modernist Gothic writing in the first half of the 20th century.
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