ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Gothic fiction as a genre was first established with the publication of Horace Walpole’s dark, foreboding The Castle of Otranto in 1764.

Detailed explanation-2: -Professor John Mullan examines the origins of the Gothic, explaining how the genre became one of the most popular of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the subsequent integration of Gothic elements into mainstream Victorian fiction.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is American Gothic Literature? American Gothic Literature is a subgenre of Gothic Literature. It focuses on the macabre and perverseness of humanity as well as elements of ab-human, ghosts, monsters, and other abnormalities.

Detailed explanation-4: -Puritan imagery, particularly that of Hell, acted as potent brain candy for 19th-century authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The dark and nightmarish visions the Puritan culture of condemnation, reinforced by shame and guilt, created a lasting impact on the collective consciousness.