Gothic fiction
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 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period. Frontispiece to 1831 edition shown. |
Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic Story". The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initiated by Walpole.
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| Gothic Fiction Bookshelf at Project Gutenberg Gothic Fiction Bookshelf at Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gothic_Fiction_%28Bookshelf%29 - Web |
| Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com - Web |
| Gothic Author Biographies Gothic Author Biographies www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/.../Biographies.aspx - Web |
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