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Learn about the origins, development, and features of Gothic fiction, a literary genre of fear and haunting. Explore the role of architecture, the female Gothic, and the influence of Gothic novels on other media and subcultures.
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).
Learn how Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto invented the Gothic genre and coined the word 'serendipity'. Discover how Walpole's literary forgery influenced the Gothic style in literature and architecture.
A comprehensive overview of the Gothic aesthetic in literature, architecture and culture in the nineteenth century. The introduction traces the critical formation and consolidation of the notion of ‘Gothic literature’ and its relation to Romanticism and medievalism.
From the publication of The Castle of Otranto to House of Leaves, a timeline of important events in the history of Gothic literature.
The Histories of the Gothic series consists of four volumes: Gothic Literature 1764—1824, Gothic Literature 1825—1914, Twentieth Century Gothic and American Gothic. The series provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of Gothic Literature and to a variety of critical and theoretical approaches.
History in the Gothic. In the first Preface to The Castle of Otranto (published late 1764; dated 1765), Horace Walpole’s literary avatar, the editor and translator William Marshal, tethers the story to follow to a precise year: ‘It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.’.
