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Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The setting typically includes physical reminders of the past, especially through ruined buildings which stand as proof of a previously thriving world which is decaying in the present. [ 4 ]
Ann Radcliffe. 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] Radcliffe was the most popular writer of ...
Early American Gothic writers were particularly concerned with frontier wilderness anxiety and the lasting effects of a Puritanical society. " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " by Washington Irving is perhaps the most famous example of American Colonial -era Gothic fiction.
Gothicism or Gothism (Swedish: Göticism Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjøːtɪsˌɪsm]; Latin: Gothicismus) was a dacianistic cultural movement in Sweden, which took honor in being a Swede, who were related to the illustrious Goths as the Goths originated from Götaland. The founders of the movement were Nicolaus Ragvaldi and the brothers Johannes ...
Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice (1835), Ligeia (1838), The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1839), The Masque of the Red Death (1842), The Oval Portrait (1842), The Pit and the Pendulum (1842), The Black Cat (1843) and The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Origin stories of the Goths. There were several origin stories of the Gothic peoples recorded by Latin and Greek authors in late antiquity (roughly 3rd–8th centuries AD), and these are relevant not only to the study of literature, but also to attempts to reconstruct the early history of the Goths, and other peoples mentioned in these stories.
Charlotte Brontë. Emily Brontë. Charles Brockden Brown. Valery Bryusov. Eleanor Alice Burford. Anne Burke (writer) John Burnside.
The movement's illustration of the Middle Ages was a central theme in debates, with allegations that Romanticist portrayals often overlooked the downsides of medieval life. The consensus is that Romanticism peaked from 1800 until 1850. However, a "Late Romantic" period and "Neoromantic" revivals are also discussed.