Gothic

Question 1

Horace Walpole

Answer 1

First applied “gothic” (barbarous, driving from Middle Ages, vicarious thrill) in subtitle “A gothic story”in Catle of Ortranto 1764. Fictonal territory exploited since then. Supernatural and old bulidings. Gothic to horror sub-genre 1760s to 1800s - invites readers to move from realism to complete disbelief.

Question 2

Ann Radcliff

Answer 2

Mysteries of Uldalpho 1794 . Action is set in the fictional Italian castle (Escapicism, for Renaissance dramatism). Stock character - brooding, aristocrat villian. Sublime

Question 3

Matthew Lewis

Answer 3

The Monk 1796. Ghosts, demons, sexually inflamed monks, and satan

Question 4

Mary Shelley

Answer 4

Frankenstein 1818. Scientific form to the supernatural formula - bipolarity transgression (devil ad human)

Question 5

Charles Maturin

Answer 5

Melmoth the Wanderer 1920. Byronic hero. Faustian Pact

Question 6

James Hogg

Answer 6

The Private Memois and Confessions of a Justified Sinner 1824. Pursued by his own double

Question 7

“Angel in the House”

Answer 7

coined by Coventry Patmore. 1854

Question 8

“Dead hand”

Answer 8

past coming to touch the present

Question 9

“uncanny”

Answer 9

Sigmund Freud sayd it reminds us of our “id” - suppressed and fobidden desires. Familar yet strange

Question 10

“sublime”

Answer 10

Edmund Burke. “strongest emotion”. A break fromm intellectual formality of Augustan Age. Antithesis to the (neoclassical) age of reason. Beginning of the 18th century

Question 11

Charles Darwin

Answer 11

Origin of Species 1859. Evolution

Question 12

Concepts

Answer 12

Wild landscape
Ruined/grotesque buildings
Excess and exteme
Exotic and oriental
Stock characters
Historical
Outsider
Religious concept/setting 
Blurring distinction etween sanity and insanity
Multiple narrators
Absolute power
Sensibility
Horror and terror
Devilish 
Doppleganger
Supernatural
Dark, decay, and shadows
Isolation
Sex and sexuality
Trangression

Question 13

Female Gothic

Answer 13

Since Ellen Moers coined the term in 1975 there has been much discussion about whether the ‘Female Gothic’ can be considered as a Gothic sub-genre. Some critics suggest that the difference between the genders is that ‘male’ Gothic concerns itself largely with social taboos (such as those dealt with in Lewis’ The Monk) whilst ‘female’ Gothic is manifested in the fear of domestic entrapment (Angela Carter’s The bloody Chamber)

Question 14

First wave of feminism

Answer 14

suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality. mid 1850s

Question 15

Second wave of feminsim

Answer 15

1960s - 1980s. wider range of issues: sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights