Gothic Novels and Romantic Love

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Gothic Novels and Romantic Love
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Gothic Novels

• Tales of the macabre
• Elements of horror and sensationalism
• Simple structure
• Character
• Setting
• Conclusion

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Horace Walpole

• The Castle of Otranto (1767)
• Manfred villain
• Matilda heroine
• Conrad - hero

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Women Readers - critics
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Ann Radcliffe

• 1764-1823
• Word painting
• The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

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Mary Shelly

• 1797-1851
• Biography
• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
• Based on a nightmare
• Epistolary novel

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Frankenstein

• Modern Prometheus
• State of mind
• Questions about maternity
• Feels like a monster

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Edgar Allen Poe

• 1809 1849
• Tragic life
• Introduced the detective story with The Murders
  in the Rue Morgue

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Romantic love Romantic stereotypes

• Romantic love
• Harmony for the soul
• Cultural changes
• Love sick hero

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Sorrows of Young Werther

• 1774
• Goethe
• Autobiographical
• Very influential book

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Female Imagery
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Female Imagery
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Female Voice
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Jane Austen

• 1775-1815
• First novel at 14
• Novel of manners
• Sense and Sensibility, Emma

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Bronte Sisters

• Charlotte - 1816-55
• Jane Eyre
• Emily 1818-48
• Wuthering Heights
• Anne 1820-49
• Agnes Grey

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George Sand

• 1804-1876
• Amadine Aurore-Lucile Dupine
• Novels question gender destinies and sexual
  identity
• Prolific writer
• Lelia (1833)