gothic timeline

Question 1

The Sublime

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Pre-Gothic (1721-1763)

Question 2

Renewed interest in medievalism

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Pre-Gothic (1721-1763)

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Growing public fascination with ghosts

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Pre-Gothic (1721-1763)

Question 4

Graveyard poets

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Pre-Gothic (1721-1763)

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Continued interest in Medieval

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Early Gothic (1764 - 1788)

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Sentimental Literature

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Early Gothic (1764 - 1788)

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An isolated location (foreign, exotic or unusual)

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Early Gothic (1764 - 1788)

Question 8

An old house or castle (- containing secret passages, trap doors, secret rooms, dark or hidden staircases or ruined sections.)

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Early Gothic (1764 - 1788)

Question 9

Supernatural or impossible events such as appearances of ghosts.

Answer 9

Early Gothic (1764-1788)

Question 10

Characters experience disturbing dreams or visions / other irrational states of mind.

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Early Gothic (1764-1788)

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Violence or violent expression of emotions.

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Early Gothic (1764-1788)

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Mystery and Secrecy

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Early Gothic (1764-1788)

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A heroine in danger

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Early Gothic (1764-1788)

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A compelling but morally ambiguous or outright villainous male central figure.

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Early Gothic (1764-1788)

Question 15

What was high Gothic (1789-1813) in response to?

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response the French Revolution = thirst for terror

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Castle of Otranto

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1764

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Lewis ‘The Monk’

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1796

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Radcliffe ‘The Italian’

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1797

Question 19

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

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1847

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Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

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1847

Question 21

Gothic Romances

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1800s

Question 22

These tended to explain apparently supernatural events in terms of characters’ psychology, and emphasised the elements of familial dysfunction and forbidden or taboo relationships within the Gothic. They also used the Gothic as a way of looking critically at women’s place in society and their entrapment within the domestic space.

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Gothic Romances (1800s)

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Shelley, Frankenstein

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1818

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Austen Northanger Abbey

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1817

Question 25

When was the Late Gothic Period?

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1814-1838

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Intertextuality (recycling of stories)

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Late Gothic (1814-1838)

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Interest in social activism

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Late Gothic (1814-1838)

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Changing views on the role of history in genre

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Late Gothic (1814-1838)

Question 29

Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' (1818) - considered to be the first English science fiction novel as well as being a Gothic novel. It brought in the element of using science either to explain or to combat the supernatural, which would become a typical feature of later Victorian Gothic novels.

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Late Gothic (1814-1838)

Question 30

Mary Braddon's 'Lady Audley's Secret' and Wilkie Collins' 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone' became wildly popular in the 1860s and 1870s. Sensation Novels differed from the Gothic by tending to focus on crime rather than the supernatural, but shared the features of secrecy, taboo and characters in violent states of emotion.

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Sensation Gothics (1860s/1870s)

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Edgar Allen Poe's short stories - elements of madness and 'terrors of the soul.'

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Gothic Revival (1880s/1890s)

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Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'

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1886 (Post Gothic)

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Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Grey'

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1890 (Post Gothic)

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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'

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1897 (Post Gothic)

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A dark, foggy urban setting.

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Post Gothic

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Ref to poverty and crime

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Post Gothic

Question 37

Scientific explanations for the supernatural or the use of science to combat the supernatural.

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Post Gothic

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Characters with repressed or forbidden desires (usually violent or sexual in nature.)

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Post Gothic

Question 39

Madness and / or greater focus on disturbed psychology as a cause or explanation of violent behaviour and / or supernatural events.

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Post Gothic

Question 40

A veneer of beauty or social respectability hiding moral ugliness.

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Post Gothic

Question 41

A 'rational' character who is sceptical of or seeks scientific explanation for supernatural events.

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Post Gothic