Nesli Karadenizli 120216053 Aytaç Yıldız 120216090 Research and Writing II, Tuesday PM Multiple Narrative Style of Wilkie Collins The Victorian Era of English history is the land of the complexity of social, political, medical, scientific, and philosophical developments. These developments also affect on the English Literature. Wilkie Collins, one of the most successful authors of the Victorian Era, chooses his way through the Gothic Fiction, and known as the first Detective Fiction writer in the
. 57 When speaking about psychology in gothic literature, it is essential to mention Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) , the American innovative gothic writer of the nineteenth century. Poe’s contribution to the gothic genre is majestic. His internal analysis of the psychology of fear in his characters in The Fall of the House of Users (1839); The Black Cat (1843) and others narratives, opened out the gothic to the exploration of mental collapse . Poe was interested in madness, detective stories, and
Conan Doyle was among the first journalists of criminologist stories and books in England. The principal novel perceived as a criminologist story was written in 1868, by Wilkie Collins entitled "The Moonstone". Later in 1870, the famous author Charles Dickens likewise attempted his hand at composing a criminologist novel called "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". These early criminologist stories have not get to be as acclaimed as Doyle's creation for various reasons, one of which is that when
Introduction From beginning to end the great Victorian writers devoted themselves to a literature of purpose. In the last decade of the century a new group of authors and artists set out to demonstrate that all art is useless in the sense of being free from allegiance to ideas of morality and standards of conduct. Except for a period in London during young manhood, Thomas Hardy passed his life near Dorchester, close to which he was born in 1840 and died in 1928. Early trainings as an architect gave
Gabrielle Blake Mr. Williams British Literature 25 March 2018 Key Elements of Victorian Gothic Literature Vampires, monsters, telepathic thinking, and split personalities were all brought to the public by Victorian Gothic novelists. Gothic novels are characterized by having elements of the supernatural, spooky settings, hyperbolic emotion, and elements of nature. Victorian sensation literature can be portrayed by women in distress, insanity, and complex narrative. Frankenstein, Dracula, and “The