GOTHIC STYLE IN ARTS AND LITERATURE

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GOTHIC STYLE IN ARTS AND LITERATURE
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CONTENTS

• The notion of gothic
• Birth of the gothic novel
• Symbols and archetypes of the gothic novel
• Development of the genre

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THE NOTION OF GOTHIC
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Birth of the gothic novel

• (1717-1797)

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The Castle of Otranto (1764)
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Gothic novel must have

• Terror, suspense, mystery
• Breathtaking chapter endings
• Supernatural (ghosts, magicians, werewolves,
  devils, monsters)
• Medieval setting (castle, abbey, monastery,
  ruins)
• Dark secrets and curses
• Merciless vilain and virginal maiden

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• Ann Radcliffe
• (1764-1823)

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Development of the genre

• Charlotte Bronte
• (1816-1855)
• Emily Bronte
• (1818-1848)
• Anne Bronte
• (1820-1849)

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Satire and parody
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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey (1818)
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In search of a gothic novel?

• Clara Reeve
• Matthew Gregory Lewis
• Mary Shelley
• Charles Maturin
• Sir Walter Scott
• G.W.M. Reynolds
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• Sheridan Le Fanu

• Bram Stoker
• Charles Dickens
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Oscar Wilde
• Henry James
• Gaston Leroux
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Daphne du Maurier