The Gothic novel:
-end of the 18th century;
-The adjective Gothic has three connotations: medieval, irregular and barbarous(opposed to Classicism), wild and supernatural (=mysterious);
-Addressed to all social classes;
-It wanted to arouse fear in the reader;
MARY SHELLEY-Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (they're both overreachers);
-epistolary form, 4 narrators (Walton, Frankenstein, the monster);
-Themes: the desire to go beyond the limits of science and nature, the double, the reference to social prejudices.
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