ENG 510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moral Panic, Haunted House, Metanarrative
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By the 18th century, the gothic is no longer seen as just negative, and develops more complex connotations; it"s more fascinating and interesting. Was a more political term at one time (nick groom wrote about from a political context) Walpole"s story is an eroticised version of what medieval life would have been like. Inspiration is located in the irrational side of the mind. There is no possibility that these stories exist in the same time and place that i do the reader can come back to the now they are given a safety belt. Both become very popular in mid-late 18th c. Allowed writers to take themselves out of the novel, they are the collectors of the pieces and they put it all together for example, but the stories are real and authentic. The novel as a genre has to legitimize itself (have morals, or are artifacts, true stories)
