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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period. Frontispiece to 1831 edition shown. Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.
Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror or Gothic romanticism) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror fiction and romanticism
Morrison, The Gothic Library writes, "is one of the few to successfully take a genre rooted in eighteenth-century Europe and make it fully modern and American. She avoids the pitfall that many ...
American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality versus the irrational , puritanism , guilt , the uncanny ( das unheimliche ), ab-humans , ghosts , and monsters .
Romantic fiction popular around 1660 to 1730; notable for preceding the modern novel form and producing several prominent female authors [23] Eliza Haywood, Delarivier Manley, Aphra Behn: The Augustans: An 18th-century literary movement based chiefly on classical ideals, satire and skepticism [24] Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift: Rococo
With aesthetic roots in pre-Victorian Gothic fiction, goth was adapted into a black-shrouded subculture by fans of melancholic 1980s British rock bands like the Cure and Cocteau Twins and has ...
The great Gothic wave, which stretches from 1764 with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to around 1818-1820, features ghosts, castles and terrifying characters; Satanism and the supernatural are favorite subjects; for instance, Ann Radcliffe presents sensitive, persecuted young girls who evolve in a frightening universe where secret doors open onto visions of horror, themes even more ...
Short stories in the genre of gothic fiction. See also Category:Horror short stories. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S.