Pre-Gothic 1721-63

Question 1

1739

Answer 1

Smith’s translation of Longinus on the Sublime introduces the concept of the sublime

Question 2

1740s

Answer 2

Graveyard poetry- Young’s Night Thoughts, Blair’s The Grave, Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Graveyard

Question 3

1746

Answer 3

Collins’ Ode to Fear describes emotional torment of fear, resembles ‘aweful pleasures’ of Gothic terror

Question 4

1753

Answer 4

Smollett’s The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom introduces themes of supernatural and terror and the archetypal Gothic villain

Question 5

1757

Answer 5

Burke’s On the Sublime and Beautiful connects the sublime with awe, terror and danger, nature as a powerful force

Question 6

1762

Answer 6

Leland’s Longsword, Earl of Shrewsbury was a precursor to the Gothic novel, containing an evil monk and madness

Question 7

OVERALL

Answer 7

Growing interest in medievalism (e.g. Walpole building Strawberry Hill House), the macabre and morbid (e.g. Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year)