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4 paź 2018 · While Walpole introduced what would later become the definitive tropes of the genre (creepy castles, cursed families, gloomy atmosphere), it was not until Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance in 1790 that gothic romance began to develop as its own legitimate subgenre.
24 paź 2024 · 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).
For many cultural commentators over the past two centuries, the phrase ‘Romantic Gothic’ might be accused of yoking together, as if by a certain violence, two utterly heterogeneous modes.
At the rare times when literary historians have confronted the question of romantic poetry’s relation to gothic Wction and drama, they usually have described it in the language of in Xuence.
It was a year in which a royal marriage, and most particularly the virginity and fecundity of a Queen, was opened up to intense scrutiny for the reading public, a year that saw the rupture of the English throne from the Catholic Church.
In the 1960s an influential school of criticism positioned the Gothic rather as a counter-movement to the Romantic, as a kind of obverse or dark side to the latter ‘s optimism and pursuit of the organic and transcendental.
This chapter surveys the literary achievements of the group of writers who gathered together on the banks of Lake Geneva in the Summer of 1816: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Polidori; and Lord Byron.
