- 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
Saturday, October 2, 2010
The Gothic Novel
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