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Gothic literature is strongly associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. English Gothic writers often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, marked by harsh laws enforced by torture and with mysterious, fantastic, and superstitious rituals.
Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years is a 1907 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc. It is a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century. [1] The poems are a sardonic critique of Victorian era upper class society. [2]
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 gothic horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly from January 27 to April 16, 1898. On October 7, 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London.
Clara Reeve, The Old English Baron (1778) Aleksey Mikhailovich Remizov, The Sacrifice (1909) and Sisters of the Cross (1910) Władysław Stanisław Reymont, The Vampire (1911) G.W.M. Reynolds, Faust (1846), Wagner the Wehr-wolf (1847) and The Necromancer (1857) Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976)
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The Castle of Otranto is the first supernatural English novel and is a singularly influential work of Gothic fiction. [1] It blends elements of realist fiction with the supernatural and fantastical, establishing many of the plot devices and character types that would become typical of the Gothic novel: secret passages, clanging trapdoors ...
Thus, for example, Lockwood, the first narrator of the story, tells the story of Nelly, who herself tells the story of another character. [49] The use of a character like Nelly Dean is a literary device, a well-known convention taken from the Gothic novel, the function of which is to portray the events in a more mysterious and exciting manner. [50]
The Monk is one of many Gothic novels that criticises the Catholic Church and Catholic tradition. By the time of the Gothic novel, the English were, to some extent, institutionally anti-Catholic. Characters such as the wicked abbess, the unchaste nun, and the lascivious monk represent the naked anti-Catholicism projected by the Gothic. [49]