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Learn about the origins, development, and features of Gothic fiction, a literary genre of fear and haunting. Explore the role of architecture, the female Gothic, and the influence of Gothic novels on other media and subcultures.
The term Gothic novel refers to 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. The first Gothic novel in English was Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto (1765).
Explore the history of Gothic literature from its origins in the 18th Century to its modern adaptations. Discover the classic novels, authors and devices that shaped the genre of terror and suspense.
Learn how Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto invented the Gothic genre and coined the word 'serendipity'. Discover how Walpole's literary forgery influenced the Gothic style in literature and architecture.
In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations).
The History of the Gothic series consists of four volumes: Gothic Literature 1764–1824, Gothic Literature 1825–1914, Twentieth Century Gothic and American Gothic. The series provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of Gothic Literature and to a variety of critical and theoretical approaches.
10 mar 2013 · The book opens with a Chronology and an Introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by five chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; Twentieth Century; and Contemporary Gothic.
