02-18-2009, 02:43 AM
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Gothic literature
It is said that Warpole created the first truly gothic novel. What conventions of his novel do you think really made it so different to what was generally being created at the time? What made the text recognised as Gothic?
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02-18-2009, 04:49 AM
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Horace Walpole's <The Castle of Otranto is considered as the first gothic novel in its suspense and terror elements... the book employs certain supernatural elements, as well as mystery and horror. A lot of the time, Gothic novels utilize descriptions of gothic architecture/buildings, and a lot of the time the characters within gothic novels are ghosts, spirits, werevolves, etc. Walpole intersects the gothic (the medieval period) with the Romantic, and produces a novel about a hereditary curse (after Otranto it becomes a common gothic feature) that keeps the reader in suspense and slight terror, and ends in a spooky sort of way
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