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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period. Frontispiece to 1831 edition shown. Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.
Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, The True and Affecting History of the Duchess of C****, Who was Confined by Her Husband in a Dismal Dungeon (1799) Carl Grosse, Der Genius (1796) (also translated by Peter Will in an abridged version as Horrid Mysteries) Walter de la Mare, The Return (1910) Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Undine (1811)
B. Stefan Bachmann; Victor J. Banis; Iain Banks; Yevgeny Baratynsky; Eaton Stannard Barrett; Konstantin Batyushkov; Charles Beaumont; William Beckford (novelist)
Frankenstein has frequently been recommended on Five Books, with literary scholars, psychologists, novelists, and historians citing it as an influential text. [80] Today, the novel is generally considered to be a landmark work as one of the greatest Romantic and Gothic novels, as well as one of the first science fiction novels. [81]
American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality versus the irrational , puritanism , guilt , the uncanny ( das unheimliche ), ab-humans , ghosts , and monsters .
Dracula is a 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles.It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula.
A crucial source on Gothic history is the Getica of the 6th-century historian Jordanes, who may have been of Gothic descent. [31] [32] Jordanes claims to have based the Getica on an earlier lost work by Cassiodorus, but also cites material from fifteen other classical sources, including an otherwise unknown writer, Ablabius.
Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist, a pioneer of Gothic fiction, and a minor poet.Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s. [1]