Saturday, October 2, 2010

The Gothic Novel

  • genre dealt with emotional extremes and dark themes
  • settings were usually castles, mansions and monasteries which were often remote, crumbling and ruined
  • gothic explique - logical explanation at the end of the book of an event that at first seems supernatural
  • gothic novels include:
    • Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
    • Anne Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian
    • M.G. Lewis's The Monk
    • Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

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