LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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scientific discovery, narratives of progress, and a focus on positivism.
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colonies, foreigners, the arts, and beautiful scenery.
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psychological and physical terror; mystery and the supernatural; madness, doubling, and heredity curses.
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empire building, the East India Trading Company, merchant stories, and often pirates.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Victorian Gothic: 1832-1901 These tropes included psychological and physical terror; mystery and the supernatural; madness, doubling, and heredity curses.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gothic literature was a significant aspect of this counter-revolution in England, often being classed as romantic texts, while simultaneously invoking supernatural themes, reacting to the picturesque paradigm that was inherent in Victorian mentality which gave Wilde his inspiration (Whelan 100).
Detailed explanation-3: -The supernatural. Another common trope in gothic fiction is the supernatural. Dark atmosphere. Another common trope in gothic fiction is a dark atmosphere. Dark and stormy night. Another common gothic trope is the dark and stormy night. Mysterious stranger. The dark and brooding hero and heroine. Romance. The grotesque. Curse. More items •02-Mar-2022
Detailed explanation-4: -Strange places. It is usual for characters in Gothic fiction to find themselves in a strange place; somewhere other, different, mysterious. Clashing time periods. Power and constraint. Terror versus horror. A world of doubt. Footnotes. 15-May-2014