Gothic Fiction

Gothic FictionBy Haley KlinePeriod 6

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Mary Shelley Wrote Frankenstein

"Gothic Experience "

Motifs

Origin

Gothic Fiction began in the second half of the 18th century when socialite and novelist, Horace Walpole, published Castle of Otranto. Gothicism came as an offshoot of Romanticism, both of which rejected Neoclassicism. Gothic Literature was also inspired by Gothic architecture(SmartHistory) which at the time was majorly popular. The reason this style was favored so was because it appealed it people by weaving a beauty of the unpleasant, the horrifying and even the grotesque.

Writers

Set in Medevil times(Wisegeek)Forbidden Knowledge or Power(Dunn-Reier)Monster/Satanic Hero/Fallen Man(Dunn-Reier)Beast Transformations(Origins)Evil, dark, mysterious tonesDemons//Spirits/Angels/Vampires(Origins)Ghosts(Origins)Dreams/Visions(Dunn-Reier)Graveyards/Churches/Ruins(Origins)Haunted Castle/House(Origins)Multiple Narrative(Wisegeek)Madness(Origins)

Charles BaudelaireJohn Keats Percy ShelleyMary ShelleyConrad AikenGaston LerouxBram Stoker'sCharlotte BronteEmily BronteAnn RadcliffJane AustenDaphne du MaurierAnne Rice(Gothic Romantic)