ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Victorian Gothic: 1832-1901 These tropes included psychological and physical terror; mystery and the supernatural; madness, doubling, and heredity curses.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gothic Literature is a genre that was popular between 18th to 19th centuries in North Germany. It is always being associated with Dark Romanticism which the emphasize was more on nature, terror and death, horror and many more.

Detailed explanation-3: -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. Gothic fiction began as a sophisticated joke.

Detailed explanation-4: -Setting in a castle. An atmosphere of mystery and suspense. An ancient prophecy is connected with the castle or its inhabitants (either former or present). Omens, portents, visions. Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events. High, even overwrought emotion. Women in distress. More items