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Gothic Literature & Romanticism

Gothic Literature & Romanticism. What is GOTHIC?. What associations do you have with the word gothic ? If you could make gothic something concrete, what would it: Sound like? Look like? Feel like?. What makes literature GOTHIC?.

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Gothic Literature & Romanticism

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  1. Gothic Literature &Romanticism

  2. What is GOTHIC? • What associations do you have with the word gothic? If you could make gothic something concrete, what would it: • Sound like? • Look like? • Feel like?

  3. What makes literature GOTHIC? • Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance, hence why it is categorized in the Romantic Period.

  4. Gothic Elements • Not all are necessary for a piece to be gothic, just a good combination of a few. • a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not • ruined buildings which are sinister or which arouse a pleasing melancholy • dungeons, underground passages, crypts, and catacombs which, in modern houses, become spooky basements or attics • labyrinths, dark corridors, and winding stairs • shadows, a beam of moonlight in the blackness, a flickering candle, or the only source of light failing (a candle blown out or an electric failure)

  5. extreme landscapes, like rugged mountains, thick forests, or icy wastes, and extreme weather • omens and ancestral curses • magic, supernatural manifestations, or the suggestion of the supernatural • a passion-driven, willful villain-hero or villain • a curious heroine with a tendency to faint and a need to be rescued–frequently • a hero whose true identity is revealed by the end of the novel • horrifying (or terrifying) events or the threat of such happenings

  6. Examples of Gothic Works • Horace Walople—The Castle of Otranto • regarded as the first true gothic romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne—The House of Seven Gables • Herman Melville—Moby-Dick • EdithWharton—Ethan Frome

  7. Gothic Architecture

  8. What is ROMANTICISM? • What associations do you have with the word romantic? If you could make romantic something concrete, what would it: • Sound like? • Look like? • Feel like?

  9. What makes literature ROMANTIC? • This literature stresses strong emotion such as trepidation, horror, and awe.

  10. Romanticism Values • Literature reflects the values of society at that time. • Emotion over reason • Belief in the supernatural • Supremacy of nature over man • Individualism • Nationalism: Customs and Folklore • High regard for imagination

  11. What is Romanticism? • Romanticism is a mid 17th Century movement that began in Europe as a response to the revolutions of the time. The Romantic period lasted until the early 19th Century influencing hundreds of artists, writers and philosophers. • Romantics sought freedom in individual thought and feeling as opposed to the waves of reason that were characteristic of the Period of Enlightenment.

  12. Examples of Romantic Works • William Wordsworth • Lyrical Ballads(with Coleridge) • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Mary Shelley • Frankenstein • John Keats • “Ode to a Nightingale” • Washington Irvin • Rip Van Winkle

  13. Romanticism: In Art • Some of the characteristics found in Romantic art include: • The power of nature • Depiction of women and children • Critique of the past

  14. Romanticism: Famous Artists J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851 The Fighting Temeraire… (right) John William Waterhouse 1849-1917 The Lady of Shallot (left)

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