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This introductory chapter charts the major directions that the Gothic aesthetic took in Britain, America and Europe over the course of the nineteenth century. Commencing with an account of the critical formation and consolidation of the notion of ‘Gothic literature’ itself, it discusses the critical work of figures such as Nathan Drake ...
- The Cambridge History of the Gothic
From writers such as Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe to...
- The Gothic novel (Chapter 26)
Surely no literary-historical phenomenon has undergone a...
- The Cambridge History of the Gothic
Gothic literature is strongly associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. English Gothic writers often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, marked by harsh laws enforced by torture and with mysterious, fantastic, and superstitious rituals.
24 Οκτ 2024 · The term Gothic novel refers to European Romantic pseudomedieval fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror. Its heyday was the 1790s, but it underwent frequent revivals in subsequent centuries. The first Gothic novel in English was Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto (1765).
5 Ιουν 2024 · Below are the Gothic titles by this author. See the supplementary material for more information about Horace Walpole's life and work, including biography and context, literary criticism, and searchable online texts. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. Publication Date: 1764.
From writers such as Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe to eighteenth-century politics and theatre, the volume provides a thorough and engaging overview of early Gothic culture in Britain and beyond.
5 Ιουν 2024 · Use the table of contents to locate digitized versions of important works by key authors of Gothic fiction from the mid-eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries. Divided into sections by time period, each page presents key Gothic titles in chronological order.
Surely no literary-historical phenomenon has undergone a more sweeping critical re-evaluation over the past one hundred years than the late eighteenth-century vogue for the ‘Gothic’ – that exorbitant hankering after horror, gloom and supernatural grotesquerie so palpable in Britain in the literature and art of the 1790s especially.
