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| | Gothic |
 | | The influence of the Gothic novel is felt today in the portrayal of the alluring antagonist, whose evil characteristics appeal to ones sense of awe, or the melodramatic aspects of romance, or more specifically in the Gothic motif of a persecuted maiden forced apart from a true love. | | | The literary motifs set forth by Horace Walpole can be found scattered throughout all forms of literature, yet the Gothic Novel has been left to molder in libraries in obscurity and except in rare instances, the novel has all but vanished from the canon of western literature. | | | The Gothic novel had come full circle, from rebellion to the Age of Reasons order, to its encompassing and incorporation of Reason as derived from terror. |
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http://piazza.iae.nl/users/sceav/hgengels/gothic.htm
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| | Hume, "Gothic Versus Romantic" |
| | The early Gothic novels can be considered the precursors of romanticism in their concern with sensibility, the sublime, and the involvement of the reader in a more than rational way. | | | The Gothic literary endeavor is not that of the transcendent romantic imagination; rather, in Coleridge's terms, Gothic writers are working with fancy, which is bound to the "fixities and definites" of the rational world. | | | Gothic and romantic writing are closely related chronologically and share some themes and characteristics, such as the hero who is a guilt-haunted wanderer. |
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http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Articles/hume.html
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| | Gothic novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Unlike Walpole's, her novels, beginning with The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), were best-sellers, and virtually everyone in English society was reading them. | | | He originally claimed that the book was a real medieval romance he had discovered and republished. | | | It led to the Victorian craze for short ghost stories, as well as the short, shocking, macabre tale as mastered by the American author Edgar Allan Poe. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_novel
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| | Women and the Gothic |
| | Dacre was one of the Gothic's most flexible practioners, marrying her tales to epistolary formats, the novel of manners, and here, a domestic tale. | | | This novel is signed, "Clara Reeve." This is a reprint of the popular The Champion of Virtue, according to the Monthly Review, "is revived and corrected and more elegantly printed." The novel is heavily indebted to Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, which led to a contretemps between the two authors. | | | Illustrations in the Gothic novel usually featured a beleagured lovely peering anxiously over her shoulder, or a young man terrified by a specter. |
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http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/gothic/women.html
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| | The Gothic Novel |
| | The Wanderer, found in many Gothic tales, is the epitome of isolation as he wanders the earth in perpetual exile, usually a form of divine punishment. | | | Even though the Gothic Novel deals with the sublime and the supernatural, the underlying theme of the fallen hero applies to the real world as well. | | | Then there is the villain, who is the epitome of evil, either by his (usually a man) own fall from grace, or by some implicit malevolence. |
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http://cai.ucdavis.edu/waters-sites/gothicnovel/155breport.html
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| | Deborah Kennedy, On _Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontes_ - Romantic ... |
| | Concentrating on gothic novels written by women, Hoeveler traces patterns within the genre, ranging from the work of Charlotte Smith in the late eighteenth century to that of the Brontës in the nineteenth century, with two chapters on Ann Radcliffe forming the core of the book. | | | Her work is informed by recent theory, and she conscientiously cites a whole range of articles and books on gothic literature. | | | Although Hoeveler attempts to rescue Smith's novel from neglect, this is perhaps the least interesting section of her book. |
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http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/back/hoeveler.html
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| | Gothic Revival architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ruskin's chapter The Nature of Gothic from The Stones of Venice printed as an essay by William Morris' Kelmscott Press | | | In The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture (1841), he suggested that modern craftsmen seeking to emulate the style of medieval workmanship should also reproduce its methods. | | | However, not every architect or client was swept away by this tide. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_revival
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| | Restuccia, "Female Gothic Writing" |
| | Though the chief symbol of the gothic is the Maiden in {246} flight, all she turns out to emblematize is "the uprooted soul of the artist, the spirit of the man who has lost his moral home" (Love and Death 111). | | | Austen's anger is the buried treasure of her gothic text: often it is through expressing what she is not upset about that she hints at what is bothering her. | | | As the gothic aspect of a woman's life (as Charlotte Perkins Gilman would later demonstrate in "The Yellow Wallpaper") is all in its normality, what is monstrous in male gothic writing naturally reappears in female gothic as frighteningly familiar. |
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http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Articles/restucci.html
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| | University of Wisconsin Oshkosh |
| | In some Gothic novels - Walpole's and Matthew Lewis's, for instance - the supernatural is not explained away; characters might really be the devil incarnate in human form, and hauntings may be caused by real restless spirits. | | | It is hard to know exactly when and if she revised this novel, and, hence, where it fits in the overall scheme of her writing the six novels we're reading for this course. | | | Frequently such novels make clear who good characters are by showing them sympathizing with the sufferings of others, and in this way, they clearly overlap with sentimental* novels (*remember, "sentimental" is the adjective for sensibility). |
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http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/shaffer/350na98.htm
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| | A Brief Historical Overview |
| | The story goes that Radcliffe, a sedate, conventional matron, was appalled at his novel and his acknowledging her influence on him, so she responded with The Italian, whose villain is also a monk to show how a novel of terror and suspense should be written. | | | Contemporary readers found the novel electrifyingly original and thrillingly suspenseful, with its remote setting, its use of the supernatural, and its medieval trappings, all of which have been so frequently imitated that they have become stereotypes. | | | The eighteenth century Gothic writers are often described as precursors to Romanticism because they valued sensibility, exalted the sublime, and appealed to the reader's imagination. |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/history.html
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| | NONGOTHAM20 |
| | It argues that "nature writing and the Gothic are related, and uses the work of Ann Williams to argue that Salamanca's novels demonstrate a progression from the mode of Gothic" defined by Williams as male and female Gothic. | | | London's "unsettling and truly strange" Gothic short story "Samuel" is directly in the the vein of Poe's psychological Gothic and is "built on the pair of words 'canny' and 'uncanny.'" | | | The Poe sections of the dissertation comment extensively on Cather's adaptation of Poe's techniques and his frenzied characters to many of her pastoral tales and novels. |
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http://users.stargate.net/~ffrank/NONGOTHAM20.html
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| | In chapter one of her book, MacAndrew states that Gothic fiction came about in the Eighteenth Century as a "new literary form" and was closely associated with the Sentimental novel to "help educate a reader's feelings through his identification with the feelings of the characters; to arouse sympathy as the aesthetics of Sensibility demanded" (3-4). | | | The Gothic novel on the other hand took it one step further by giving depth to the characters and therefore also to the reader, thickening the plot of the story by adding a supernatural flair. | | | Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions. |
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http://home.mindspring.com/~blkgrnt/footlights/foot51.html
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| | Glossary of Literary Gothic Terms |
| | Example: In Ann Radcliffe's novels, the author allows both the character and reader to question throughout the entire novel whether the weird phenomena described are happening in a setting of known laws of nature or in a setting where miracles or supernatural intervention must be in place to account for the strange events. | | | Parody of the gothic often relies on travesty and burlesque: a favorite strategy transports the exotic, aristocratic, antique, and foreign setting of the gothic tale to a contemporary lower-class British setting, and lets the resulting dislocation indict both gothic absurdity and the English taste for it. | | | Within the tale, the very female occupants of Brown's village are depicted as a coven of witches devoted to the worship of Satan. |
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http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~dougt/goth.html
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| | Excalibur Online |
| | Before this evolution, a "novel" was considered to be any short work of fiction or romance, and for a long time this term only pertained to the English and the Spanish, though in Spanish the word was "novela". | | | Before this, all English literature was written in the form of poetry, verse, or pamphlets. | | | The evolution of English literature into sentences, paragraphs and chapters came amidst the chaos that was the 18th century. |
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http://www.excal.on.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1203&Itemid=2
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| | The Gothic novels are not only of interest in themselves but have exerted a significant influence upon other forms. | | | Succeeding writers who produced Gothic romances include: Matthew ("Monk") Lewis, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, whose Frankenstein is a striking performance in the tradition. | | | Her emphasis upon setting and story rather than upon character-delineation became conventional, as did the types of characters she employed. |
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http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/english/allen/gothic.htm
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| | gothic novel - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about gothic novel |
| | Whilst there are macabre and violent acts, no one dies unjustly in a true gothic novel. | | | The vampire or creature unleashed is a scourge to test the righteous and bring weakness, evil, and folly to account. | | | The gothic became so popular in the 19th century that it was incorporated into works of other genres. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Gothic+novel
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| | Novel, Romance, and Gothic: Brief Definitions |
| | Doubtless the main difference between the novel and the romance is in the way in which they view reality. | | | Then, at such an hour, and with this scene before him, if a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances. | | | By contrast the romance, following distantly the medieval example, feels free to render reality in less volume and detail. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/novel.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Gothic Novel |
| | The genre was one phase of the literary movement of romanticism in English literature and was also the forerunner of the modern mystery novel (see Mystery Story). | | | Charles Brockden Brown, the first American professional novelist, is best known for his Gothic romances. | | | Gothic Novel, type of romantic fiction that predominated in English literature in the last third of the 18th century and the first two decades of the 19th century, the setting for which was usually a ruined Gothic castle or abbey (see Gothic Art and Architecture). |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761553321
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| | Gothic Literature Read by the Romantic Writers |
| | For the Gothic novel I've begun with such standard references as Summers' A Gothic Bibliography, Frank's Guides to the Gothic, Spector's The English Gothic, McNutt's The Eighteenth Century Gothic Novel, and Tracy's The Gothic Novel: 1790-1830 for a working canon from which to compile lists of those works of fiction read by the poets. | | | One final note that might suggest the kind of challenge faced in the compilation of this list: I was puzzled to find no evidence of any of the poets' having read novels of two of the most popular and formative writers of Gothic fiction, Clara Reeve and Charlotte Smith. | | | What I really hope for the list is that it will spark some lively debate about our understanding of just what constitutes the Gothic--always a wonderfully vexatious issue—and (at this stage) the significance of the major poets' reading of specific Gothic literary works. |
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http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~dougt/gothic.htm
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| | Gothic Novel |
| | Novel, type of romantic fiction that predominated in English literature in the... | | | Gothic Literature Page has a new address: www.zittaw.com/gothicliterature.htm. | | | We have a large selection of books for you to choose from. |
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http://www.redbicycle.co.uk/gothic_novel.html
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| | The San Antonio College LitWeb Gothic Novel Outline |
| | The gothic influence can also be observed in the Americans *Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, to name only three. | | | The Gothic novel, which had its heyday in the 1790's was satirized in two novels of 1818 : Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey and Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey. | | | The following novels, among others, show the influence of the gothic tradition : |
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http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/gothic.htm
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| | Elements of the Gothic Novel |
| | As an appeal to the pathos and sympathy of the reader, the female characters often face events that leave them fainting, terrified, screaming, and/or sobbing. | | | Walpole's novel was imitated not only in the eighteenth century and not only in the novel form, but it has influenced writing, poetry, and even film making up to the present day. | | | Robert Harris is a writer and educator with more than 25 years of teaching experience at the college and university level. |
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http://www.virtualsalt.com/gothic.htm
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| | Touched by the Hand of Goth: Classics of Gothic Horror Cinema |
| | Lee's masterful portrayl of the vampire count was based on Lugosi's stylish gentleman bloodsucker, with some additional sophisticated decadence. | | | The maestro himself was extremely dedicated to his work, and actually lived the last years of his life in the fantasy world of his films - he was finally even buried in his Dracula cloak. | | | This was to be noticed by the world in 1922, when the German expressionist |
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http://www.student.oulu.fi/~sairwas/frameX/horror
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| | VoS - Voice of the Shuttle |
| | Eliza Parsons, The Castle of Wolfenbach (Gothic Library) | | | Gothic Literature Page: The English Gothic Novel from 1764-1820 (includes information, criticism, summaries, syllabi, bibliography, and links) (Franz Potter) | | | The Literary Gothic Page (literary Gothicism of the 18th and 19th centuries; includes some resources in modern Gothic) (Jack G. Voller, Southern Illinois U. at Edwardsville) |
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http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2540
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| | The Gothic Literature Page |
| | Please note that the Gothic Literature Page has a new address: www.zittaw.com/gothicliterature.htm | | | A Gothic's Gothic, Bungay Castle seamlessly melds the monastic, the subterranean and the supernatural elements into a delightfully terrifying example of the female Gothic. | | | A fleshy and diabolical romance featuring the first lady of the garish, the seducer-superior Mother Vittoria Bracciano, the feminine counterpart of Lewis's Ambrosio. |
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http://members.aol.com/iamudolpho/basic.html
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| | From Gothic Novel to Gothic Drama |
| | Paul Ranger, 'Terror and Pity Reign in Every Breast' | | | The following plays represent a fair sampling of the most important plays in the gothic style, but they also represent an interesting study, for those familiar with the gothic tradition in literature, of the differences between the gothic novel and the gothic drama. | | | Two of the plays excerpted here are adaptations of popular Gothic novels: The Count of Narbonne is based on Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, and The Italian Monk is based on Ann Radcliffe's The Italian. |
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http://www.engl.virginia.edu/~enec981/Group/amanda.gothdrm.html
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| | The Gothic Novel |
| | The Gothic Novel: Studies in Literature and Culture | | | In this class, we are going to look at how gothic novels articulate that which escapes unnoticed from “rational,” science-driven accounts of experience. | | | Before cinema, gothic novels were the mainstay of popular culture. |
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http://people.emich.edu/acoykenda/480
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| | Gothic.net |
| | Third, and most importantly, the novel is modeled on the Bible and the relationship between Christ and Mary Magdalene, and much to my shame, I have never read the whole Bible. | | | This is the long-awaited debut novel from Dave, who is well-established in the magazine and anthology circuit. | | | The cover art on this book is the type that makes me grit my teeth. |
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http://www.gothic.net
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| | Show Business Weekly: Review: Southern Gothic Novel |
| | Blocker’s ‘novel’ in question, The Reigns of Aberdeen, chronicles the travails of the denizens of Aberdeen, Mississippi, with an over-the-top sensibility to rival the Mama’s Family sketches on The Carol Burnett Show. | | | Ironically, it’s a testament to Blocker’s vocal dexterity that I found myself putting together a dream cast for a fully-staged version of Southern Gothic Novel as I watched him work. | | | Blocker, a tall, willowy actor originally from Atlanta, has dipped his pen into an inkwell of influences, most notably Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion and Joe Sears and Jaston Williams’ Greater Tuna, to create his opus. |
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http://www.showbusinessweekly.com/archive/240/southern_gothic.shtml
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| | The Literary Gothic - the premier webguide to Gothic & horror lit written prior to 1950 |
| | Welcome to The Literary Gothic, the web's premier guide to Gothic fiction and all Gothic-tradition literature written prior to 1950, featuring links to and information about dozens of gothic-tradition writers, as well as etexts created and/or hosted only at this site. | | | The Literary Gothic - the premier webguide to Gothic and horror lit written prior to 1950 | | | If you're seeing this page, you may have disabled javascript or the "refresh" meta tag in your browser, or may not have the Flash plugin, or are probably using Microsoft's benighted Internet Explorer, but you probably already knew all that.... |
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http://www.litgothic.com
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