ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Common themes and motifs of the Gothic include power, confinement, and isolation. The genre has led to the rise of pulp magazines in the early twentieth century, the modern horror genre, and most famously, the Southern Gothic–fiction that contains elements of the gothic, taking place in the American South.

Detailed explanation-2: -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

Detailed explanation-3: -Gloomy, decaying setting (haunted houses or castles with secret passages, trapdoors, and other mysterious architecture) Supernatural beings or monsters (ghosts, vampires, zombies, giants) Curses or prophecies. Damsels in distress. Heroes. Romance. Intense emotions. 28-May-2015

Detailed explanation-4: -The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (1839) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) The Strange Case of Dr. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898) More items •04-Jun-2020