This is a useful introduction and 30 page revision resource that I put together for A-Level students studying the Gothic Genre.
The booklet covers the following:
What is the Gothic?
Gothic Novels: Background and Origin
The Gothic Tradition
Characteristics of the Gothic Novel
Elements of Romance
Strange Places
Clashing Time Periods
The Haunted Castle
The Pursued Protagonist
The Monster
The Vampire
Power and Constraint
Terror versus horror
The Uncanny
Otherness
The Grotesque
The Sublime
Persecution and Paranoia
Victorian Gothic
The Gothic as a projection of anxieties of the time
Female Gothic
Contemporary Fiction: Postmodern Gothic
Critical Perspectives on Gothic Fiction
Function of Gothic Literature – Some Possible Interpretations
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