He is co-author of The Routledge History of Literature in English with Ron Carter, and also wrote The Language of Poetry, Literature with a Small 'l' and the first critical edition of Teleny by Oscar Wilde and others. John McRae is Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies and Teaching Associate in the School of English at Nottingham University, and holds Visiting Professorships in China, Malaysia, Spain and the USA.
Moreover, Victorian Gothic connects its disparate areas of research in returning repeatedly to the question of the constitution. The Gothic is found to haunt all aspects of Victorian literature and culture. It was born with novels like The Castle of Otranto, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Monk (a memorable horror describes the corruption of a Catholic Monk as he falls into temptation, rapes his sister and eventually sel. Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations. Along the way, we will explore some of the most important novels in the English language, including: Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, and the Picture of Dorian Gray. Answer (1 of 5): The Gothic genre only had a very brief life in its pure form. In this course, we explore the history of the Gothic novel, beginning with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, and finishing with the literature (and films) of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that have been influenced by the Gothic, including Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and Angela Carter’s A Bloody Chamber. If you want to re-add it, I won't delete it again, even if it's not on the requisite number of people's "Gothic" shelves.In this module, we think about the use of gothic elements in the works of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens. "Gothic" can be a relatively subjective term, not as cut-and-dried and easy to define as some even for people who know literature and many other people are relatively clueless about what it is (as some of their list additions demonstrate!) I don't know the list creator, Rachel but I'm guessing she set up that criteria as a way of bringing in an objective yardstick, and replacing idiosyncratic individual judgement with the collective perspective of many readers (in the hope that the latter would be more likely to be accurate).Īll of that said, I can see Gothic elements in Dracula, though I personally usually associate "Gothic" with something set strictly in or around one particular sinister building. The results can be seen in Tennyson’s fairy poems of the early 1830s, Charlotte Bront hiding guilty secrets in the Gothic towers of Thornfield in Jane Eyre (1847), and the way Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the. (I don't know how large that number has to be.) The more people who have a "Gothic" shelf (I don't myself) and list a particular book on it, the more likely it is that Goodreads will list "Gothic" as one of the book's genres. In the time of early Victorian technology, steam-trains and the electric telegraph, many writers retreated into a backward-looking world of sentiment, chivalry and terror, often modelled on the Medieval Gothic of Ann Radcliffe and Walter Scott. Following on from the page on classic Gothic novels (1760-1820), by the Victorian era, Gothic had ceased to be the dominant genre and was mostly dismissed. On the book records, where a list of "Genres" is supplied, the Goodreads program apparently lists every customized shelf name (like "Gothic," "Fiction," "Horror," etc.) that a certain number of people have all shelved the book as. In his novel Dracula, published in 1897, Stoker creates an iconic literary vampire by combining the contemporary fears of degeneration, otherness, and. Some very simple, generic shelf names, like Gothic, are used by a LOT of people, even though they don't coordinate with each other.
But many people go on to create customized shelves of their own, sometimes by genre (including "Gothic"). When you join Goodreads, the program automatically sets your bookshelves up with three basic shelves (read, currently reading, and to read). Jon, good question! There is but one person can't do it alone. Jon wrote: "If the main consideration for a book's inclusion is it having the genre listing of Gothic on its book page, is there a way to make such a thing happen?"
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