Is Edith Wharton Goth?
 

I recently finished 'House of Mirth', and came to the conclusion that it's practically gother than Dracula. Yes, it doesn't have vampires, or bats, or re-animated corpses, but it's about fleeting beauty, the hells we create for ourselves, self-destruction, how love *doesn't* transcend all bonds and ultimately suicide. With themes like that, how can it not be goth? Or am I just barricading myself into my own little world?

I have, I was just wondering if anyone had a) read the book, b) agreed with the opinions I had or merely thought I was talking fart-gas and c) thought that the ending of Dracula was a happy ending cop-out, what with the slightly odd closing paragraph of Van Helsing's *entirely* platonic admiration of Mina Harker and the certainty that Morris is living in a whiskey-filled otherworld with a Johnny Cash soundtrack.

Well, as Xng stated, make up your own mind.
There's no right or wrong answer, but as far as you described, I'd give you the go-ahead.

I have read almost all of Edith Wharton's books and I would have to say that her books can be rather depressing.......not because they are 'goth' but because they represent what happened during the late Victorian era...which wasn't a very happy time for women.

I know, it's tempting to say that everything we like is goth, but no :)

I know that many believe her to have had "great admiration and perhaps affection of various sorts" for Henry James, who, in my opinion, is pretty damn gothy. :) The Turn of the Screw is a masterpiece<3333333

Yep, well, I guess I could do <3<3<3<3<3<3 too emphasize my love but I'm too lazy so I prefer to display my heart with excessive amounts of lumps on it's head to get my point across. Yay for deformities.

No problem. I have a tendency to do things like that, assuming that everyone will automatically know what I mean because I send of psychic brain waves like that...
Yeah... I wish......