Unseen Gothic Bundle (OCR A Level English Lit)
A complete guide to approaching and answering Section A, Paper 2 of A Level English Literature (‘The Gothic’).
Includes:
Unseen Gothic One-Stop Shop
(Mark scheme; Exam rubric; Luckhurst’s Gothic Waves; Gothic concerns, character archetypes and key conventions; Setting as character; Decay and language in the Gothic; Metonymy; Movements within the Gothic)
Gothic Textual Survey
(11 key Gothic texts across the periods of Early Gothic (1765-1788), High Gothic (1789-1813), Late Gothic (1814-1838), Post-Gothic (1839-1898), Postmodern (1960-) and the Female/Cosmic Gothic)
Coverage for each text mentioned:
Title, year, Author
Key context
Tropes
Narration (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)
Key characters, setting and language
Resource from a student who achieved A* at A-Level in the 2022 series. Please leave a review if choosing to download, and credit if/when reusing! Thanks.