ENG 580 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gothic Fiction, Exaggeration, Mental Substance
17 Jul 2016
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Gothic and horror are often treated as synonymous, although subtle differences make them separate. Horror, like gothic literature, is called a narrative of darkness , darkness stands for the unknown, the mysterious, the other. Horror: those texts that deliberately arouse and manipulate fear or apprehension. What is horror in one age might be unintentionally funny in another. Founding text of gothic horror in english literature. When published it was referred to as terrorist fiction, modern romance, a hybrid text (elements of the natural and the supernatural, modern and the ancient, realism and gothic horror) Context: usurpation, english politics, gothic allegory for contemporary english political society, safety; better to set this in a remote time and place rather than in contemporary. Characters: manfred; prince, hippolita; wife, neglected by manfred, matilda; also neglected, daughter, conrad; sick son, isabella; conrads fianc e, jerome; friar giving shelter to isabella, bianca; attendant, unnamed youth; helps isabella escape, the castle.
