LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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The Individual and Technology
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The Individual and the Working Class
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The Individual and Education
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The Individual and Isolation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gothic involves the supernatural (or the promise of the supernatural), it often involves the discovery of mysterious elements of antiquity, and it usually takes its protagonists into strange or frightening old buildings.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Gothic is a mode that engages consistently with the hermeneutics of isolation. Where there is a castle, a monastery, or indeed an Inquisition, there exists the threat of enforced isolation in a secret space hidden from the scrutiny of others. This enforced isolation speaks to the vulnerability of the protagonists.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gothic fiction as a genre was first established with the publication of Horace Walpole’s dark, foreboding The Castle of Otranto in 1764. In the centuries since, gothic fiction has not only flourished, but also branched off into many popular subgenres.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Shelley Works. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology & Resource Site. Shelley’s Ghost. Horace Walpole works at Project Gutenberg. Bram Stoker on Project Gutenberg. Ann Radcliffe-British Library. 14-Apr-2022