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Nov 18, 2023 · Gothic literature is a deliciously terrifying blend of fiction and horror with a little romance thrown in. The Gothic novel has a long history, and although it has changed since 1765 when it began with Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story, it has maintained certain classic Gothic romantic elements.
The Gothic, a literary movement that focused on ruin, decay, death, terror, and chaos, and privileged irrationality and passion over rationality and reason, grew in response to the historical, sociological, psychological, and political contexts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Feb 23, 2024 · “The ‘Gothic Ages’ were backwards, and superstitious, and it was an age of darkness and ignorance, and barbarity.” - Dread and Decadence: Exploring the Literary in Gothic Horror By Nora Luongo, Rutgers University, 2020. 1. Setting in a castle. The action takes place in and around an old castle, sometimes seemingly abandoned, sometimes ...
The Gothic literary genre flourished in Britain between 1765 and 1838, emerging as a dark strain of eighteenth-century Romanticism. Gothic plots featured supernatural occurrences, eerie atmospheres, and decrepit architectural spaces that represented the turmoil of their tortured protagonists. It is these conventions that have allowed the Gothic ...
In the following essay, Riquelme examines the relationship between the Gothic and Modernism in literature. The Gothic Imaginary and Literary Modernism. The Gothic imaginary in its diverse literary embodiments has come to be understood as a discourse that brings to the fore the dark side of modernity (Botting 2).
Jan 22, 2022 · The term “gothic” first originated in France sometime around the 12th century. Gothic did not start being used as a type of literature. Instead, it was used to describe a medieval style of unique, intricate and ornate architecture (and ruins). Gothic became a genre of literature in the 18th century. The first-ever Gothic literature to grace ...
Overview of Gothic Literature. The genre of "Gothic Literature" emerged as the darkest form of Dark Romanticism in its extreme expressions of self-destruction and sin involving sheer terror, personal torment, graphic morbidity, madness, and the supernatural. Put simply, they are stories that scare the bejesus out of you!
