CRIM 4654 Lecture 10: Lecture 10
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Gothic fiction flips the dominant binary logic. Gothic fiction and the romantic movement was a resistance against the enlightenment. They were a reaction against the complete scientific rationalization of nature. Enlightenment thought that science could help us understand nature. Gothic fiction sa(cid:455)s s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot do that, it (cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essa(cid:396)il(cid:455) lead to (cid:271)ette(cid:396) e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374)s of nature. Gothic writers strove to use strong emotional experiences: awe, terror and horror. The way that the gothic writers evoked the emotion of horror was through the figure of the monster, the idea of irrationality and digression. The reason why we should care about a cultural battle is because we have inherited the same building blocks of social construction. Foucault argued that is also makes us the other victorians: not only because we are canadian but because victorian architecture is present in downtown due to queen victoria: gothic criminology (greek and picart) Social construction of evil x social construction of criminality.
