Gothic Literature Summary

Performing Arts and the Gothic INTRODUCTION REPRESENTATIVE WORKS PRIMARY SOURCES DRAMA FILM TELEVISION MUSIC FURTHER READING Introduction The English Gothic drama, like the Gothic novel, was character... Read more

Society, Culture, and the Gothic INTRODUCTION REPRESENTATIVE WORKS PRIMARY SOURCES OVERVIEWS RACE AND THE GOTHIC WOMEN AND THE GOTHIC FURTHER READING Introduction The Gothic tradition originated in re... Read more

In the following essay, Ranger details the various motifs, settings, stock characters, narrative devices, and themes of the Gothic drama. Neither eighteenth-century playwrights, nor members of their a... Read more

In the following essay, Reno explains the nearly universal critical objections to the appearance of ghosts onstage in Gothic plays performed in the late eighteenth century. By the end of the eighteent... Read more

In the following essay, Hoeveler examines the social and political implications of the Gothic drama's popularity. In Spectacular Politics (1993), Paula Backsheider suggested that gothic drama i... Read more

In the following excerpt, Evans discusses the use of Gothic elements in the plays of the major Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, and Shelley. The purpose of this final chapter is to... Read more

In the following essay, Gamer discusses the Gothic dramas of Matthew Lewis and Sir Walter Scott. Of genius, in the fine arts, the only infallible sign is the widening of human sensibility … of ... Read more

I do not agree with the statement that gothic literature is nothing more than a collection of old horror stories. A type of romantic fiction that dominated English literature in the C18th and C19th, ... Read more