Origins and Themes of Gothic Fiction
Gothic fiction originated with Horace Walpole's novel "Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story" and typically features gloomy medieval settings with supernatural elements. Writers like Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Allan Poe further developed the genre by evoking terror and fear through wicked characters, nightmares, and abnormal psychologies. Explore the evolution and key works of Gothic literature.
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Gothic Its originator is Horace Walpole. He wrote a novel titled Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. The subtitle of the novel referred to its medieval setting. desiring to write gothic fiction followed this example and set their novels in gloomy medieval castles bristling with dungeons, underground passages, Supernatural beings such as vampires, ghosts are included in gothic narratives. Then the writers sliding panels.
The aim of gothic is to invoke terror, fear. Later, the meaning of gothic has been extended and used narratives which lack medieval setting but evoke terror and fear, exploiting wicked characters, nightmares, elements and abnormal psychologies. to describe the supernatural
Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Bram Stoker s Dracula Emily Bronte s Wuthering Heights
The Masque of the Red Death The students are expected to read the work before the class meeting
