Gothic Periods

Question 1

What period was early gothic

+ what writers

Answer 1

1760 - 1790

Walpole, Lewis, Radcliffe

Question 2

What period was romantic gothic

+ what writers

Answer 2

1789 - 1824

Stoker, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Polidori, Austen

Question 3

What period was Victorian gothic

+ what writers

Answer 3

1837 - 1901

Dickens, Collins, Poe, Le Fanu

Question 4

What period was Fin de Siecle

+ what writers

Answer 4

1880 - 1900

Stevenson, Stoker, Wells, Wilde

Question 5

What period was early 20th century gothic

+ what writers

Answer 5

1900 - 1950s

Lovecraft, Du Maurier, Jackson

Question 6

What period was Southern American

+ what writers

Answer 6

1920 - 1960

Faulkner, Hurston, McCarthy, Morrison (1980s)

Question 7

What period was postmodern gothic

+ what writers

Answer 7

1960 onwards

Carter, Rice, King

Question 8

What period was contemporary gothic

+ what writers

Answer 8

2000+

Hill, Setterfield

Question 9

First wave gothic time period and tropes

Answer 9

1760 - 1820

Castles
Older men as villains
Young women as victims
Religious transgressions
Ghosts and supernatural
3rd person narrative

Question 10

Second wave gothic time period and tropes

Answer 10

1820 - 1920

Influence of sublime
Monsters as the ‘other’ (foreign?)
Physical deformities as the other (Darwinism)
Science vs religion
Influence of Freud
More ‘ realistic’
Female sexuality as dangerous (fin de Siecle)

Question 11

wave gothic time period and tropes

Answer 11

1920 onwards

Aberrant crimes (child victims)
Influence of science fiction (aliens)
Religion as a negative force
Female sexuality as liberating
Psychopathic characters
Postmodern use of fairytales
First person / unreliable narrative
The ‘other’ is the hero
Suburban settings