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GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Will the real Goth please stand up?

• Gothic Cathedral

• Goth, Germanic Tribe

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How about this Goth?
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Ahemactually were talking about a literary
movement!
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Gothic Literature

• A genre of fiction dealing with tales of the
  macabre and supernatural, which reached a height
  of popularity in the 1790s.

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Counterfeit Medievalism

• Think of it as a Medieval Revival. Gothic
  authors wanted to conjure up a dark and distant
  past.

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If its Gothic, it will probably feature
ANCIENT CASTLES AND RUINED ABBEYS
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Secret Passages And Underground Dungeons
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Flickering Lampsonly the really scary kind
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SCREAMS AND MOANS
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GHOSTS
AND
GRAVEYARDS
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GOTHIC became a label for the mysterious,
supernatural, and terrifying. especially the
pleasurably terrifying.
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The Castle of Ontrato, Horace Walpole, 1764

• Walpole led the way in this genre with his
  self-styled Gothic Story.

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The Castle of Ontrato had all these and more!!!!

• Haunted Castle
• A hero named Manfred
• Mysterious deaths (sickly heir crushed by giant
  helmet on his wedding day!)
• Moaning Ancestral portrait
• Damsels in Distress
• Violent passions
• Strange obsessions

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Mary Shelley, Frankensteinthe most enduring
Gothic novel
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Edgar Allen Poe

• Poe is a well known for crafting terrifying
  tales, although chronologically he came after the
  Gothic literature of Romantic period writers.

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Even todaywe still love a scary story
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So to sum up

• How would you define Gothic Literature?
• What are some common elements of Gothic
  Literature?
• Why might these stories appeal to people?

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Thanks for Listening!!!