Gothic fiction

Traditional gothic fiction was at the height of its popularity during the Victorian era, it exploded in the 1790’s and continued its reign well into the 1800’s. This confrontational style of fiction often blurs the lines of realistic and artificial, forcing readers to challenge their beliefs and surpass the norm. However, the aspect of gothic fiction that was most attractive to the Victorian audience was the way human fears and societal tensions were reflected in the deliberately fictionalised literary

Brönte’s poem “How Clear She Shines” the elements of Gothicism are displayed clearly. The overall cynical mood sets the scene for a gothic style of writing; the contrasts between truth and treachery, joy and pain, peace and grief, bring out a feeling of unease that is Gothicism. Emily Bronte expounded on these themes in her novel Wuthering Heights, a classic work of gothic fiction. This novel portrays two lovers with a very unhealthy relationship in which they are very passionate but take their passion to

into a certain style or literary movement would give us some really tough hours. Poe can be considered either a Romantic or Gothic writer but we could find a number of arguments and counterarguments for this matter. Poe, in fact, reinterpreted the whole Gothic horror style and created a unique, distinct brew of Gothic fiction, Romanticism and his

Picture of Dorian Gray and Henry James' The Turn Of the Screw are key examples of the way in which gothic texts use and adapt the conventions of the genre. These changes occur due to the author's own personal context and values. The inexorable link between text, context and values is expressed through the way in which both authors choose to manipulate, redefine and introduce new conventions to the gothic. Oscar Wilde's first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was written in 1890 and was first

Forum on Fiction in 1973. As from what we can assume from the title is that the journal focuses exclusively on novels that are a work of fiction. It does not deal with poetry or even short stories.It is most likely that the audience are those who focus their research interests on the novel form. Levine’s essay focuses on how Frankenstein fits into two different traditions of novel writing, the realistic novel and the Gothic novel. Levine’s main argument is that although Frankenstein is a gothic novel

Gothic Elements in The Cask of Amontillado By: Harshul Jain The Cask of Amontillado is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known for using Gothic conventions in his stories which mostly includes the atmosphere of mystery, oppressiveness to create terror but interestingly he subverts the Gothic conventions by having having human beings, instead of a supernatural element, create most horrible deeds. Poe tries to achieve that horror via the capabilities of the humans. Poe uses unreliable

anti-Enlightenment thinking. The early nation had been exposed to many classical and rigid writers who wrote to inform rather than to entertain. When Brown emerged as the first Gothic American novelist, he as well as many other early American authors wrote using devices such as moralization in order to “upgrade fiction” (Nutter lecture). Hugh Holman explains that writers who did not hold themselves to the standard of classical thinking wrote in an unknown and foreign nature. Romantics regarded

shock, and utter abhorrence are key elements in Gothic horror literature that have frightened readers since the eighteenth century. American writer, editor, critic, and poet, Edgar Allan Poe became a highly influential figure in the world of literature and is one of the first writers to develop this genre of fiction and horror. In Poe’s popular short stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Poe can be described as a Gothic writer by exploring themes of death and darkness

Nathaniel Hawthorne Virtue of Gothic Elements American fiction in the 19th century was a dark and gloomy time in terms of literature, that registered the grotesque minds of writers as gothic and romantic. The gothic style consists of elements that depicts on a dark, horrid, supernatural like atmosphere within a piece of writing. The setting and/or overall mood of a gothic piece almost always corresponds with hidden gothic motifs and symbolic meaning throughout the story. One writer in particular

prominent works of Gothic fiction. The story has over the years become ingrained into the collective human consciousness, providing a cautionary, often-sensationalised tale of the mysteries of human nature and of our dual capacity of being simultaneously good and evil. As a genre, Gothic fiction is deeply complex and convoluted. Since its inception, it has come to encompass various forms, even divided into subgenres such as urban gothic, space gothic, post modern gothic, post colonial gothic and so on.