LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Romantic, slap-stick comedy, light-hearted,
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non-fiction, modern, religious
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Victorian, blood-curdling, violent, fiction
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Action-packed, modern satire,
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Detailed explanation-1: -Emerging in Europe in the 18th century, Gothic literature grew out of the Romantic literary movement. It’s a genre that places strong emphasis on intense emotion, pairing terror with pleasure, death with romance. The Gothic is characterized by its darkly picturesque scenery and its eerie stories of the macabre.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. Gothic fiction is distinguished from other forms of scary or supernatural stories, such as fairy tales, by the specific theme of the present being haunted by the past.
Detailed explanation-3: -Victorian Gothic: 1832-1901 These tropes included psychological and physical terror; mystery and the supernatural; madness, doubling, and heredity curses.
Detailed explanation-4: -numinous: The numinous is the divine and the spiritual, or it may be the revelation or suggestion that a god is present; always, it inspires awe and reverence. occult: paranormal: preternatural: eerie: uncanny: 26-Aug-2008