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Gothic Through

History

By history, we mean the beginning 'til the start of 20th century

The Castle of Otranto

1764

Horace Walpole

First gothic novel

Supernatural, horror, dark, naive women, evil

Comedy - melodramatic

The Mysteries of Udolpho

1794

Ann Radcliffe

The dawn of female gothic

Misadventures, death, supernatural, terror, gloomy, castle,, machinations, italian

Archetypal gothic novel

The monk

1796

Matthew Lewis

Shocking society

Priest, gory finale

Male gothic

The Vampyre

John Polidori

Birth of the tale in english

First Vampire story,

1816

Frankenstein

1816

Mary Shelly

Raising the dead

We all know it

Spine-tingling

Mad scientist

Northanger Abbey

1818

Jane Austen

Austen plays with gothic

Parody

Memorable

Young girl

Direct references to The mysteries of udolpho and the monk

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

1840

Edgar Allan Poe

Psychological terror

Collection of short stories

Traditionally frightening

Terror of the soul

Madness through fear

Madmen

Unreliable narrators

Wuthering Heights

1847

Emily Bronte

Gothic close to home

Yorkshire

Romantic novel

Female gothic

Domestic and dominated

Stories within stories

Imposing building, Wuthering Heights itself

Byronic hero

Carmilla

1871

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The female vampire

Unfinished poem Christabel

Second only to Dracula

Female sexuality

Lesbian vampire

Explicit

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1886

Robert Louis Stevenson

Anticipating Freud

VIctorian

Tale has lived

Characters transcended text

Gothic theme of double

Sigmund Freud

Dracula

1897

Bram Stoker

The vampire’s vampire lands at Whitby

Not biggest seller

But most notable

Imaginative

Transylvanian count

Male vampire

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