Hugh Blair labels the artistic gothic architecture – the setting, as a source of the sublime “A gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our mind, by its size, its height, its awful obscurity, its strength, its antiquity, and its durability”.14 Another key feature of the gothic genre is transgression. Transgression is simply the violation of social, cultural and moral norms. Gothic tries to get over conventional boundaries and break the rules of law and nature by transgressing to supernaturalism:
Young Werther, Volney’s The Ruins of Empires, and Plutarch’s Lives, into her own story by letting the monster read them. Shortly, this monster is better read than most of today’s high- school graduates. Those books, however, are another important aspect. Mary Shelley choose those books prudently. As to why, will be discussed later. Genre wise, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can be called a triple threat. The novel is often recognized as the first work of science fiction, it is one of the greatest
limited their experiences with the society and gave rise to desires and needs that fuelled their creativity in writing. As highly educated introverts of poor wealth, they observed people and their personalities to create now timeless works of English literature. (Bronte 2010: v) Experiences and solitary life in the isolated and gloomy landscapes of the Yorkshire moors unquestionably influenced the work of Emily Brontë the most. The only close bond were with her family and her dog Keeper. (Adams 2000) The
talent, rather than to his undoubted literary genius, that he owes his immense reputation” (Priestly 89). His most notable novels include The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, and The War of the Worlds. “The Red Room,” “The Door in the Wall,” “The Empire of the Ants,” “The Valley of Spiders,” “The Flying Man,” and “The Star” consist of six commendable short stories written by Wells. Within these short stories, H.G. Wells illustrates similar themes and literary devices while exploiting
of a Gothic novel. However its characters are not as simple as the average Gothic protagonists. This particular novel deals with an amount of Gothic qualities, like dark settings and extreme landscapes, moonlights and candles, melancholy figures and imprisonment, torture and cruelty, supernatural element, madness, necrophilia as well as a communication between the living and the dead. Jibesh Bhattachayya states out clearly: “That Emily Bronte must have read some of these fictions of the Gothic type
“The haunting face of the vampire is simply a darker version of our own” (Carol A. Senf) The nineteenth century, or the Age of Victoria, has been regarded throughout time as a period of astonishing progress and prosperity, that transformed Victorian Britain from “a largely rural society, based on a monopoly of state-controlled interests, to an urban and industrial society, based on an increasing culture of individualism and capitalism” (Purchase, 2006: 3). For the British society, its early
common run of humanity, whom he regards with disdain. Countless are the examples of Byronic heroes in nearly all of Byron 's epic poems, particularly in Manfred (1817) and Don Juan (1819). Other example of Byronic Heroes from 19th-century Western literature includes Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen 's novel Pride and Prejudice
2. INTRODUCTION- LIFE AND WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Allan Poe represent the first great literary generation of United States of America, this was the Romantic period in American literature. The Romantic outlook in case of novels was expressed in the form of romance but romances were not love stories. The protagonists of the American romance were generally haunted, alienated individuals. The isolated and alienated characters in the tales written by Poe were unknown and mysterious individuals
than to his undoubted literary genius, that he owes his immense reputation” (Priestly 89). His most notable novels include The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, and The War of the Worlds. “The Red Room,” “The Door in the Wall,” “The Empire of the Ants,” “The Valley of Spiders,” “The Flying Man,” and “The Star” consist of six short stories written by Wells. Within these short stories, H.G. Wells illustrates similar themes and literary devices while exploiting his unique
Gothic as a literary genre has generally been associated with descriptions of frightening events that produce an atmosphere of mystery and uncertity, concepts that in the end provide the suspension of disbelief so important to the Gothic fiction. Described by many as “a literature of crisis”, the Gothic can be understood as a linguistic assertion where “the anxieties of a culture find their most explicit expression” (Daly, 1997: 184), reflecting thus the political, social and cultural context in