GothicLiterature


 * Gothic Literature**: a genre[[image:Nevermore_by_janne_landet_dreams.jpg width="200" height="355" align="right"]] of literature that uses elements of horror and romance.

Gothic Literature appeared in the beginning of the 18th century. It was a part of American Romanticism and it was a reaction against Classicism. The first true piece of Gothic Literature was __The Castle of Otranto__, written by Horace Walpole.

Important authors: -**[|Edgar Allan Poe]** -[|Charles Brockden Brown] -[|James Fenimore Cooper] -[|Ann Radcliffe]

Popular works: -The Pit and the Pendulum (Edgar Allen Poe) -The Raven (Edgar Allen Poe) -Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) -The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Characteristics: castles, dungeons, torture chambers, mystery, suspense, skeletons, ghosts, strange deaths, horror, graveyards, and violence.

Gothic Literature may not be as dominant as is was in the 18th century, but it still exists today.

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