How is the Southern Gothic movement a response to literary movements that have preceded it as well as a manipulation of Romantic literary conventions?

 How is the Southern Gothic movement a response to literary movements that have preceded it as well as a manipulation of Romantic literary conventions?

Southern Gothic Romanticism is a sub-genre of Romanticism. It is a response to the Romanticism movements and a manipulation of Romantic literary conventions. It shares the basic values of nature, human nature, and past; but it also includes the manipulations of a southern setting, the common grotesque character, and the themes of freakishness, imprisonment, violence, and sense of place.