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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.
Gothic fiction comprises Gothic novels, short stories and short-story collections. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) Marquis de Sade, Justine (1791) August Derleth, The Lonesome Place (1948) Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1854), Great Expectations (1861) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) Thomas M. Disch, The Priest: A Gothic Romance (1994)
The Gothic War between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ostrogothic Kingdom was fought from 535 until 554 in Italy, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica. It is commonly divided into two phases. It is commonly divided into two phases.
The eighteenth-century Gothic novel is a genre of Gothic fiction published between 1764 and roughly 1820, which had the greatest period of popularity in the 1790s. These works originated the term "Gothic" to refer to stories which evoked the sentimental and supernatural qualities of medieval romance with the new genre of the novel .
Dracula is a 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles.It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula.
Goths or Gothic people, a Germanic people Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths; Gothic alphabet, an alphabet used to write the Gothic language; Gothic (Unicode block) Geats, sometimes called Goths, a large North Germanic tribe who inhabited Götaland
Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist, a pioneer of Gothic fiction, and a minor poet.Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s. [1]