Late Gothic 1814-36

Question 1

1817

Answer 1

Byron’s Manfred is a supernatural poem which introduced the Byronic hero, Romantic self-assertion

Question 2

1818

Answer 2

Austen’s Northanger Abbey satirises the Gothic genre and critiques sentimentalism

Question 3

1818

Answer 3

Shelley’s Frankenstein epistolary novel, critique of contemporary scientists, isolation, sublime

Question 4

1819

Answer 4

Polidori’s The Vampyre introduces the Western Vampire as a sexually corruptive sinister aristocrat

Question 5

1824

Answer 5

Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner from the point of view of a criminal anti-hero, psychological mystery, critiques the concept of predestination

Question 6

1826

Answer 6

Racliffe’s On the Supernatural in Poetry distinguishes terror from horror (obscurity vs atrocity)

Question 7

1833

Answer 7

Abolition of slavery, freed 800,000 enslaved Africans

Question 8

OVERALL

Answer 8

• Engaged with anxieties about scientific progress, introducing themes of hubris
• Byronic hero as a dominant archetype- brooding, flawed, morally ambiguous
• Themes of guilt, madness and self-destruction