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S2: Gothic Fiction And Female Novelists Flashcards

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Who is another poet from the romantic Epoche? (1795-1821)

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John Keats

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Whats a term introduced by John Keats?

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Negative capability

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What is negative capability?

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Absence of capability: he is interested in what actually drives men and human beings, beautiful things, absence of something is not necessarily bad or negative

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What are 3 major works of John Keats?

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  • Ode on a Grecian urn (1819)
  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1819)
  • On Autumn (1820)
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What are 2 characteristics of John Keats?

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  • humble background
  • studies medicine
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Whats the form of „ode on a Grecian urn“?

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5 stanzas, quartet (abaab + sestet, iambic pentameter)

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What is Ekphrasis?

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Rhetorisches Mittel: sehr detaillierte Beschreibung

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What are the themes of „ode on a Grecian urn“?

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  • past, time, eternity
  • art
  • desire, fulfilment
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What does the urn in „ode on a Grecian urn“ symbolise?

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Liberating past, time, eternity, what remains
It is something that has survived endlessly, timeless beauty (reflection of timelessness)
Famous poem (quoted a lot)

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What is another poet left from romantic period? (1788-1824)

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George Gordon Byron

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What are 3 major works of George Gordon Byron?

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  • Don Juan (epic satire, 1819/1824)
  • Manfred (closet drama, 1819)
  • Prometheus (1818)
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Who is George Gordon Byron‘s daughter?

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Ada Lovelace

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Who was George Gordon Byron‘s close friend?

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Shelley

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How was George Gordon Byron‘s lifestyle?

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Scandalous

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How did George Gordon Byron die?

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  • war of Greek independence (1821-1832)
  • financial support for the cause
  • died of violent fever in Missolongi
  • „Byron“ still a popular name in Greece
  • town of Vyronas named after him
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Who was Caroline Lamb?

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Byron‘s lover

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With what epoque has the gothic one many overlaps?

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Romanticism (Schauerromantik)

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What kind of movement was the gothic literature? (Continent)

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European
German: Schauerroman
France: roman noir

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What kind of authors are present in the gothic?

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Female authors

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What are characteristics of gothic novels? (6)

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  • barbaric, medieval, frightening, dark
  • picturesque scenery
  • often set in continental Europe rather than England
  • images of ruin and decay (literally and metaphorically)
  • melodrama and excess
  • damsel in distress, fallen hero
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What are motifs of gothic epoque? (6)

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  • cruelty
  • Hauntings
  • imprisonment
  • madness
  • sexual transgressions
  • damsel in distress/fallen hero
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What are we not talking about when talking about the gothic?

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Germanic tribes, medieval architecture, youth culture

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What are 3 famous gothic novels?

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  • Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
  • Matthew Lewis: The Monk (1796)
  • Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1818)
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What are 3 major works by Ann Radcliffe?

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  • A Sicilian Romance (1790)
  • The Romance of the Forest (1791)
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
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What are features of Ann Radcliffes novels? (6)

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  • innocent (often orphaned) heroines
  • sentimental tradition = excess of feelings
  • imagined horrors combined with more „realistic“ mysteries
  • suspense
  • rational explanation at the end = „supernatural explained“
  • clear moral at the end, restitution of domesticity
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Whats terror?

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  • finest emotion (Stephen King)
  • awful apprehension/the smell of death (Devendra Varma, The Gothic Flame)
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Whats horror?

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  • sickening realisation, stumbling against a corpse (Devendra Varma, The Gothic Flame)
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What was Matthew Lewis‘ profession?

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writer and politician (diplomat, MP)

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What are 3 of Matthew Lewis major works?

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  • The Monk (1796)
  • The Castle Spectre (1796)
  • The Minister: A Tragedy, in Five Acts (1797)
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Whats the Main Plot of „The Monk“?

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  • Perfect and famous monk Ambrosio falls in love/lust with virtuous Antonia (who is love with Lorenzo, a young nobleman)
  • Beautiful Matilda cross-dresses as young monk in order to seduce Ambrosio and suceeds
  • Matilda proposes a pact with the devil to gain access to Antonia and Ambrosio agrees
  • Ambrosio kills Antonia’s mother, Elvira, who tries to prevent Ambrosio molesting her daughter
  • Ambrosio drugs Antonia and takes her ‘corpse’ to the monastery
  • Ambrosio rapes Antonia in the monastery’s crypt and kills her
  • Matilda and Ambrosio are imprisoned by the Inquisition
  • Matilda convinces Ambrosio to sell his soul to the devil in order to
    escape prison
  • Satan appears and reveals that Ambrosio is Elvira’s son and has thus killed his mother and raped and killed his sister
  • Matilda turns out to be a demon
  • Satan tells Ambrosio that he should have asked for eternal life and not just for release from prison
  • Ambroise dies a horrific death
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Whats the subplot of the Monk?

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Subplot:
• Pregnant nun Agnes is tortured by the Prioress and imprisoned in the convent’s crypt; the baby is born there and dies shortly afterwards
• Raymond, Agnes’ lover and Lorenzo’s friend, travels through Europe and encounters bandits, the Wandering Jew and the Bleeding Nun

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Who were Mary Shelley‘s parents?

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William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft

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What are 3 of Mary Shelley‘s major works?

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  • Frankenstein (1818)
  • Mathilda (1819)
  • The Last Man (1826)
34
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Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?

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  • rejection of aristocracy, arguing for democracy
  • arguing for education for women
  • comparing marriage to „legal prostitution“
  • criticising „innocence“ as a virtue
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Who was William Godwin?

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  • „government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind“
  • progress is possible and can be brought by rationality rather than laws
36
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Whats the setting of Frankenstein?

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Alps, arctic, uncanny study

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What are themes of Frankenstein?

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Monster, fallen hero, sublime

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Science in Frankenstein?

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  • Vitalism: difference between living and inanimate entities
  • Abernathy/Lawrence debate: body and soul vs. Body as a purely mechanic system
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What are motifs in Frankenstein?

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  • Faust: ambition
  • (failing) creator = Hybris
  • (failed) Prometheus = lack of responsibility
  • humanity
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Whats Frankenstein‘s narrative?

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  • framed narrative: Captain Walton, Frankenstein, creature
  • first person narrators, homodiegetic
41
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Who were Charlotte Bronte‘s sisters?

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Emily (Wuthering Heights) and Anne (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)

42
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What was Charlotte Bronte‘s pen name?

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Currer Bell

43
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What did Charlotte Brontë work as?

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Governess

44
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What are Charlotte Bronte‘s major works?

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  • Jane Eyre (1847)
  • Shirley (1849)
  • Villette (1853)
  • The Professor (1857)
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What are the genres of „Jane Eyre“?

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Naturalism/Gothic (melodrama)

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Whats Jane Eyres narrative?

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  • first person, homodiegetic
  • „autobiography“
  • female voice
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What are Naturalism characteristics in Jane Eyre?

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  • Education = Bildungsroman
  • social class
  • gender
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What are Gothic characteristics in Jane Eyre?

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  • settings
  • „otherness“
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What are the settings in Jane Eyre?

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  • Gateshead House
  • Lowood School
  • Thornfield Hall
  • Moor House
  • Ferndean Manor
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How are Jane‘s emotions indicated?

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Subjective perspective, narration

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What do the different settings indicate?

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They are indicators of Jane‘s development and social position

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Femininity: Jane?

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= not a typical heroine (refers to herself as being plain, link to character)
- plain
- virtuous
- strong principles
- not conforming to gender roles

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Femininity: Blanche Ingram?

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  • beautiful
  • vain
  • flirtatious
54
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Femininity: Bertha Mason (first Mrs Rochester)?

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  • mad
  • sexual
  • exotic
55
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What are novels, which mention Bertha Mason‘s Afterlife?

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  • Jean Rhys „Wide Sargasso Sea“ (1966): prequel to Jane Eyre; postcolonial classic
  • Sandra Gilbert/Susan Gubar „The Mad-woman in the attic: The woman writer and the 19th-century literary imagination“ (1979): categorisation of female characters as either „angel“ or „monster“; madwoman in the attic as symbol for repressed female agency/creativity/ sexuality
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Realism is a reaction against…

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Romanticism/Gothic

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What is the primary genre of realism?

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Novel - roots in the 18th century

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Realism is…
A) international (… name 3)
B) representation of ….
C) avoidance of …

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A) Dostojewsky, Pushkin, Twain
B) ordinary things as they are
C) implausible, exotic or supernatural elements

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What are features of realism?

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  • verisimilitude (Wahrheitsnähe)
  • „simple“ language
  • Omniscient narrator
  • middle-class characters
  • interest in individuals‘s emotions, character, etc.
  • social issues (class, gender, etc)
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What are Jane Austen‘s major works?

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  • Sense and Sensibility (1811)
  • Pride and Prejudice (1813)
  • Mansfield Park (1814)
  • Emma (1815)
  • Northanger Abbey (1818)
  • Persuasion (1818)
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What are themes in Jane Austen‘s novels?

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Domesticity, society, marriage, money, irony/satire, conversation

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What are stylistic devices in Jane Austen‘s novels?

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  • irony
  • conversation
  • free indirect discourse
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Whats free indirect discourse (narrated monologue)?

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  • Representation of a character’s consciousness in third-person narration
    • Mixture of psychonarration and interior monologue
    • Less formal in syntax, exclamations, ellipses, mimicking of character’s way of speaking, etc
    • Avoidance of “he/she said”, etc
    • Impression of immediacy
    • “Dualvoice”àthird-personnarratorand character merge
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Explain the concept of „the uncanny“ within the framework of Gothic literature.

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The uncanny refers to a feeling of unease or discomfort generated in the reader when something familiar is made strange or unsettling.
Within the framework of Gothic literature, the uncanny usually results in a feeling of mystery, discomfort, horror or strangeness in a novel.

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How is Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice a typical realist novel?

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  • omniscient narrator
  • focus on the domestic world, marriage, society, money
  • focus on middle class characters
  • use of everyday or simple language
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Otherness

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Otherness is the result of a discursive process by which a dominant in-group (“Us,” the Self) constructs one or many dominated out-groups (“Them,” Other) by stigmatizing a difference – real or imagined – presented as a negation of identity and thus a motive for potential discrimination.

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Gothic

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  • European setting
  • first person narration

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