Gothic/Romantic Period

Question 1

When did the gothic period begin?

Answer 1

Late 18th century

Question 2

What is another name for Gothic literature?

Answer 2

Imitation medievalism

Question 3

What are features of gothic literature?

Answer 3

Terrifying experiences in castles, dungeons, flickering lights, ghosts

Question 4

How was the gothic themes started?

Answer 4

By gardens and architecture

Question 5

Who helped start the gothic trend?

Answer 5

Horace Walpole

Question 6

When was Horace Walpole born?

Answer 6

1717-1797

Question 7

When/What did Horace Walpole buy and how did he decorate it?

Answer 7

Strawberry Hill in the 1740’s and decorated it “Gothik”

Question 8

What was gothik architecture like?

Answer 8

Very ornate, medieval

Question 9

Where can you find gothic architecture today?

Answer 9

Colleges, military academies, churches

Question 10

What was Horace Walpole’s first book and when was it published?

Answer 10

Castle of Otranto in 1764

Question 11

Who were the best selling authors in gothic literature?

Answer 11

Mostly women:

Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley

Question 12

What are the Elements of Gothic literature?

Answer 12

Setting in/around a castle 
Atmosphere of Mystery
Ancient Prophecy 
Omens and visions 
Supernatural 
High Emotion 
Women in Distress 
Women Threatened by a male 
Gloom and terror 
Vocab

Question 13

What does horrorgithic mean?

Answer 13

Creatures/monsters

Question 14

Who was the popular romantic literature author?

Answer 14

Daphne du Maurier

Question 15

When did Daphne du Maurier live?

Answer 15

1907-1989

Question 16

What was Daphne du Maurier like?

Answer 16

Thought to be reclusive (was not) 
Privileged 
Kind 
Private 
Complex

Question 17

What was Daphne du Maurier’s childhood like?

Answer 17

Born into creative family
Father was actor who started matinees
2nd of 3 sisters
Had holiday home in Cornwall and she liked writing there

Question 18

Who was Daphne du Maurier’s husband and children?

Answer 18

Fredric Browning- in military

3 kids

Question 19

What was one of Daphne du Maurier’s first novels?

Answer 19

The Loving Spirit, 1931

Question 20

What was Daphne du Maurier’s writing described as?

Answer 20

Described as romantic, but mostly gothic

Question 21

Who were Daphne du Maurier’s influences?

Answer 21

Bronte sisters (Witherinh Heights)

Question 22

What was the pattern of Daphne du Maurier’s writing?

Answer 22

Would write a novel, then multiple short stories

Question 23

When was the Romantic period?

Answer 23

1785-1832

Question 24

Who were the “big six” in romantic period writing?

Answer 24

Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats

Question 25

Who was the only one who was not a poet?

Answer 25

Shelley

Question 26

What inspired romantic period writing?

Answer 26

Culture, social, politics, American and French Revolutions, rise of industry in England

Question 27

What was a blue stocking?

Answer 27

Intellectual, writers, educated women

Question 28

What form of writing was considered the most important?

Answer 28

Poetry

Question 29

What did the romantic period cause writers to do?

Answer 29

Push them to try new things, and experiment with from and style

Question 30

Why would the British tax writers and publishers?

Answer 30

Worried or overproduction of the written word

Question 31

What are the Elements of the Romantic Period?

Answer 31

Powerful Love 
Uncertainty of Reciprocation 
Unreturned Love 
Tension between lover and father 
Lovers parted 
Illicit love or lust threatens the virtuous one 
Rival lovers