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THE GOTHIC TIMELINE Flashcards

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TIME PERIOD:

1700s / 18th century (core Gothic)

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  • philosophical shift away from scientific rationalism

- emphasis on reason, rather than feeling/emotion

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NOVELISTS:

1700s/18th Century (core Gothic

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Horace Walpole
Ann Radcliffe
Matthew Lewis

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TYPICAL FEATURES:

1700s / 18th century (core Gothic)

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Terror / supernatural / castles / forests / dread / irrational violence / women under threat / ghosts / patriarchal oppression

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OTHER CONTEXTS:

1700s / 18th century (core gothic)

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Wars (e.g England was at war with France in 1775 for nearly 10 years)

1789/1788 - French Revolution

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TIME PERIOD:

Late 1700s-early 1800s (romantic-era Gothic)

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cross-over texts: aspects of the Gothic used in “romantic” texts

  • a way of exploring accepted boundaries and social conventions
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NOVELISTS:

Late 1700s-early 1800s (romantic-era Gothic)

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Mary Shelley

James Hogg

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TYPICAL FEATURES:

Late 1700s-early 1800s (romantic-era Gothic)

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sublime / tyranny / position of women / horror / terror / justice / injustice / boundaries and limits / emotion over reason

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OTHER CONTEXTS:

Late 1700s-early 1800s (romantic-era Gothic)

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Late 1700s-1800s: industrial revolution

Mid 1700s onwards: scientific experiments such as Galvanism (exploring the origins of life)

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TIME PERIOD:

1800s / 19th century Gothic

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  • can be known as Victorian Gothic

- aspects of Gothic incorporated into domestic novel / detective fiction

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NOVELISTS:

1800s / 19th century Gothic

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Charlotte Brontë
Charles Dickens
Edgar Allen Poe

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TYPICAL FEATURES:

1800s / 19th century Gothic

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Opposites / otherness / anxiety / class / race and gender difference / origins / doubles / psychological complexity

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OTHER CONTEXTS:

1800s / 19th century Gothic

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1800s: middle class as a result of the Industrial Revolution

1859 - Charles Darwin publishes “The Origin of the Species”

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TIME PERIOD:

1880s-early 1900s (fin de siècle Gothic)

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end of century gothic - responding to emerging evolutionary, social and medical theories

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NOVELISTS:

1880s-early 1900s (fin de siècle Gothic)

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Oscar Wilde

Bram Stoker

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TYPICAL FEATURES:

1880s-early 1900s (fin de siècle Gothic)

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doubling / degeneration / doubt / fantasy / psychological landscapes / criminology

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OTHER CONTEXTS:

1880s-early 1900s (fin de siècle Gothic)

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1896: Max Nordau publishes “Degeneration”
1919: Freud publishes paper on “The Uncanny”, using examples from Gothic stories to illustrate

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TIME PERIOD:

1900s - present (American gothic)

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Southern Gothic emerges - using Gothic to explore personal / social trauma arising from the legacy of slavery and civil war

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NOVELISTS:

1900s - present (American gothic)

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Harper Lee
Stephen King
Edgar Allen Poe

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TYPICAL FEATURES:

1900s - present (American gothic)

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Supernatural tension / grotesque / alienation / crime / violence / decay / taboo subjects / the past

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OTHER CONTEXTS:

1900s - present (American gothic)

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1930s: Jim Crow laws, enforce segregation, along with lynching and KKK common in Southern states

1950s-60s: civil rights movement

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TIME PERIOD:

1900s - present (British gothic)

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Often a response to social and cultural contexts

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NOVELISTS:

1900s - present (British gothic)

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Daphne du Maurice
Angela Carter
Iain Banks
Susan Hill

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TYPICAL FEATURES:

1900s - present (British gothic)

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dislocation / grotesque / gender / anxiety / transgression / instability

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OTHER CONTEXTS:

1900s - present (British gothic)

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1914-18: WWI

1939-45: WWII

1960s onwards: rise of feminism

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what did the Gothic emerge from?

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  • the Enlightenment, which sought to destablise rationality and the beliefs of religion through superstition and the supernatural, as a response to the uncertainties surrounding this transition.
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during 1970s….

- link to Sue Chaplin

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women’s liberation movement fought to dismantle the notion that ‘femininity is essentially passive’

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1781 - Galvanism example

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  • Lugi Galvani used electricity to cause a violent spasm to occur in the frog’s leg - giving the illusion that the frog had come back to life
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women burnt at the stake as they were thought to be witches - yet they simply did not act ‘normal’

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1560-1630

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