Victorian Gothic 1837-98

Question 1

1840-70

Answer 1

2nd industrial revolution

Question 2

1842

Answer 2

Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque introduces the Gothic short story, murder and obsession

Question 3

1847

Answer 3

Brontë’s Jane Eyre female bildungsroman including explained supernatural and imposing architecture

Question 4

1853

Answer 4

Brontë’s Wuthering Heights featuring frame narrative, doppelganger and the supernatural

Question 5

1860

Answer 5

Collins’ The Woman in White mystery novel, sensation fiction, inequality in marriage

Question 6

1861-65

Answer 6

American Civil War

Question 7

1886

Answer 7

Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde duality, public vs private life, moral repression

Question 8

1888

Answer 8

Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills example of Imperial Gothic, horrors of empire

Question 9

1890

Answer 9

Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray includes duplicity, aestheticism and homoeroticism

Question 10

1897

Answer 10

Stoker’s Dracula responds to Victorian fear over fluidity of gender roles and reverse imperialism

Question 11

OVERALL

Answer 11

• Shift from rural to urban settings
• Clash between past and modernity
• Influenced by theories like degeneration
• Frequent motif of the doppelganger