LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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Tenderness and affection evoked by beautiful objects
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Feelings characterized by smallness, delicacy, and smoothness
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Emotions generated by objects that were vast, magnificent, and obscure
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Spiritually superior and without moral failings
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Detailed explanation-1: -The sublime is a philosophy that emphasizes an overwhelming and awe-inspiring feeling. In literature, the sublime uses language and imagery that leaves the characters, and subsequently the readers, with a feeling of intense grandeur.
Detailed explanation-2: -Often, Gothic writers use melodrama or “high emotion” to convey a thought. This exaggerated, impassioned language helps convey the panic and terror inherent in many characters. Themes of madness and emotional distress were seen in many of the 20th century Gothic novels that depicted the condition of psychosis.
Detailed explanation-3: -Romantic literature elicits personal pleasure from natural beauty, and Gothic fiction takes this aesthetic reaction and subverts it by creating delight and confusion from terror. This use of terror is called the sublime, which is an important tool in these narratives.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gothic novel, European Romantic pseudomedieval fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror. Its heyday was the 1790s, but it underwent frequent revivals in subsequent centuries.