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Gothic romance
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart
Gothic romance,
variety of fiction widely popular in 18th-century England, whose use of medievalism, sensationalism, and supernatural horrors was developed by Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764), set in a background of romantic “Gothic” architecture; Beck-ford's Vathek (1786); M. G. Lewis's The Monk (1795); The Mysteries of Udolpho (1795) and other romances of horror by Ann Radcliffe; and later by Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. In the U.S., Charles Brockden Brown was the leading early author of Gothic romances, succeeded in the mid-19th century by such ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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