Search results
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages , which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels.
Jun 5, 2024 · A Gothic Timeline. Gothic Trends and Topics; Gothic Fiction in Historical Context; Gothic Fiction from the 18th Century to the Romantics. English Gothic Fiction: 1764-1832 ; American Gothic Fiction: 1764-1832 ; Gothic Fiction in the Victorian Era. English Gothic Fiction: 1833-1901 ; American Gothic Fiction: 1833-1901 ; Gothic Fiction in the ...
- Jennifer Ferguson
- 2018
- Development of Gothic Literature
- Gothic Literature's Influence on Today's Fiction
- Similarities with Gothic Architecture
Gothic literature developed during the Romantic period in Britain. The first mention of "Gothic," as pertaining to literature, was in the subtitle of Horace Walpole's 1765 story "The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story" which was supposed to have been meant by the author as a subtle joke—"When he used the word it meant something like ‘barbarous,’ as ...
Today, Gothic literature has been replaced by ghost and horror stories, detective fiction, suspense and thriller novels, and other contemporary forms that emphasize mystery, shock, and sensation. While each of these types is (at least loosely) indebted to Gothic fiction, the Gothic genre was also appropriated and reworked by novelists and poets who...
There are important, though not always consistent, connections between Gothic literature and Gothic architect. Gothic structures, with their abundant carvings, crevices, and shadows, can conjure an aura of mystery and darkness and often served as appropriate settings in Gothic literature for the mood conjured upthere. Gothic writers tended to culti...
A literary success in the Victorian era, the tale has lived on and (like Frankenstein and Dracula) its characters have transcended the original text to become a modern myth.
Mar 11, 2019 · Maturin (1780-1824) is the final major gothic artist of the period. He was a Protestant clergyman from Dublin and a spiritual brother of the Marquis de Sade. He also was a protégé of Sir Walter Scott and an admirer of Lord Byron. His major gothic novel is Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), as shocking to its public as was Lewis’s The Monk.
Subscribe. The 1760s was the decade of literary forgeries. One of the most famous forgeries which that decade produced, Horace Walpole’s 1764 book The Castle of Otranto, was responsible for founding the Gothic novel genre. Walpole, who was the son of the first de facto Prime Minister of Britain, Robert Walpole, claimed the story was a….
People also ask
Is Gothic literature still a genre?
Where did Gothic fiction come from?
What happened to Gothic fiction in Victorian era?
When did Gothic fiction peak?
Who wrote gothic fiction?
What is Gothic horror?
Easy targets for satire, the early Gothic romances died of their own extravagances of plot, but Gothic atmospheric machinery continued to haunt the fiction of such major writers as Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and even Charles Dickens in Bleak House and Great Expectations. In the second half of the ...
