ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Gothic literature is a genre that emerged as one of the eeriest forms of Dark Romanticism in the late 1700s, a literary genre that emerged as a part of the larger Romanticism movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -But where did Gothic literature originate? Throughout the 18th century, the phenomenon of the Gothic emerged and flourished across Britain. With its emphasis on suspense and the supernatural, terror and the macabre, the Gothic was heralded as a “medieval revival” that stood against the Enlightenment’s focus on reason.

Detailed explanation-4: -Romanticism is sometimes characterized as the larger movement, of which the Gothic is a part, a subset, or variety. Other scholars see them as quite distinct, or even see the Gothic as the precursor that leads to the rise of Romanticism.