ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -However, the Gothic tropes used earlier in the eighteenth century in texts such as Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho were transported and interwoven into many late-nineteenth century narratives.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Gothic Literature is a genre that was popular between 18th to 19th centuries in North Germany. It is always being associated with Dark Romanticism which the emphasize was more on nature, terror and death, horror and many more.

Detailed explanation-4: -Later, in the early Victorian period, authors such as Charles Dickens borrowed typically Gothic motifs – the innocent abandoned in a threatening environment for example, or the mysterious stranger with secrets to hide – and transplanted them to contemporary Britain to highlight modern concerns.