LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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The excessive violence found in the Gothic novel
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The barbarians that populate the Gothic novel
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The use of the word in the subtitle of Walpole’s novel
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The style of architecture found in the Gothic novel
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Detailed explanation-1: -Horace Walpole first applied the word ‘Gothic’ to a novel in the subtitle – ‘A Gothic Story ’ – of The Castle of Otranto, published in 1764. When he used the word it meant something like ‘barbarous’, as well as ‘deriving from the Middle Ages’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Called Gothic because its imaginative impulse was drawn from medieval buildings and ruins, such novels commonly used such settings as castles or monasteries equipped with subterranean passages, dark battlements, hidden panels, and trapdoors.
Detailed explanation-3: -Generally regarded as the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto was first published in 1764. Its author is Horace Walpole (1717–1797), but it purports to be a translation of a work printed in Naples in 1529 and newly discovered in the library of ‘an ancient Catholic family in the north of England’.
Detailed explanation-4: -In gothic literature, the philosophy of the sublime is used as a way to leave the characters in the novel with an overwhelming sense of dread or terror. Gothic novels and works embrace the elements of horror and want to leave both the characters and the reader in a perpetual state of terror.