LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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The American Revolution
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The French Revolution
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The Battle of Waterloo
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The Industrial Revolution
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Detailed explanation-1: -The gothic novel contains modes of nightmarish terror, violence, and sexual rapacity. These modes coincided with the mood and modes of violence brought forth during the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Gothic, a literary movement that focused on ruin, decay, death, terror, and chaos, and privileged irrationality and passion over rationality and reason, grew in response to the historical, sociological, psychological, and political contexts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Romantic movement and the subgenre of the Gothic emerged as a response to the Enlightenment. Elements of the Gothic include foreign places, supernatural or unexplained forces, terrifying thoughts, irrational behavior, clashing of different time periods, and a world of uncertainty.