LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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As a version of the Romantic novel
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As a set of literary devices developed in the 18th century but applicable to present day
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As the antithesis of postmodernism
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As the resolution of madness
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -This genre is dark, eerie, and mysterious, often containing elements of terror, horror, and the macabre and the bizarre. Common themes and motifs of the Gothic include power, confinement, and isolation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gothic literature arose at the end of the eighteenth century during a time of social, political, and economic unrest. Thus, it was and continues to be described as a reactionary genre devoted to returning repressed societal fears to our attention so we might expel them.
Detailed explanation-4: -Characteristics of the Gothic include: death and decay, haunted homes/castles, family curses, madness, powerful love/romance, ghosts, and vampires. The genre is said to have become popular in the late 18th century with the publication of Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto in 1764.