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GOTHIC NOVELS (WHAT (Importance given to terror (from obscurity and…
GOTHIC NOVELS
THE SUBLIME "Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling" (Burke)
According to Burke the sources of the sublime can be: #
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Horace Walpole wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, in 1764
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The adjective "Gothic" for novels may refer to the (pseudo)-medieval buildings, emulating Gothic architecture, in which many of these stories take place
Walpole was the first to use "Gothic novel" as a subtitle for his Castle of Otranto #
The adjective "Gothic" was first used disparagingly to refer to late Medieval cathedrals (as a synonym of "barbarian")
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Ancient settings (isolated castles, mysterious abbeys, convents)
Presence of supernatural beings (monsters, ghosts, witches)
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Honourable, sensitive heroes, who save the heroines
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Frankenstein is an example of "Gothic novel with a difference"