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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.
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 .
[19] [20] The Castle of Otranto is seen as establishing a literary foundation in which sexual desire and transgression is a defining thematic undercurrent of the new genre of the Gothic. [ 19 ] [ 21 ] Max Fincher has written that Manfred is preoccupied with the threat of his identity being discovered in a way that parallels the fear of ...
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 ...
Southern Gothic particularly focuses on the South's history of slavery, racism, fear of the outside world, violence, a "fixation with the grotesque, and a tension between realistic and supernatural elements". [4] Similar to the elements of the Gothic castle, Southern Gothic depicts the decay of the plantation in the post-Civil War South. [4]
The Gothic fragment is a type of short Gothic fiction popular in the late 1700s, perhaps approaching the popularity of the Gothic novels of the time. [1] Unlike the Gothic tale, fragments focus mostly on atmosphere instead of plot, [2] and they are written mostly to astonish the reader rather than provide a moral conclusion. [3]
Beautiful, Frightening, and Silent is a gothic horror novel by Jennifer Anne Gordon that delves into the psychological depths of grief, guilt, and the supernatural. Set on the haunted Dagger Island, the novel intertwines the lives of Adam, a man overwhelmed by the loss of his family, and Anthony, an elderly man haunted by the ghost of his past lover.
From the growing madness of Prince Hamlet, to the violent ending to the constant reminders of death, to, even, more subtly, the notions of humankind and its structures and the viewpoints on women, Hamlet evokes many things that would recur in what is widely regarded as the first piece of Gothic literature, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto ...