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Question 1

First Wave:

Answer 1

18th Century Gothic (1764–1820s)

🦇 Key Works: The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe

🏰 Themes: Haunted castles, supernatural elements, persecuted heroines, dark family secrets

🖊 Notable Authors: Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis

Question 2

Second Wave:

Answer 2

Romantic & Victorian Gothic (1820s–1890s)

🦇 Key Works: Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley, Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson

🧛 Themes: Science vs. the supernatural, doubling/doppelgängers, madness, morality, monstrous transformations

🖊 Notable Authors: Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker

Question 3

Third Wave:

Answer 3

American & Southern Gothic (19th–20th Century)

🦇 Key Works: The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe, A Rose for Emily (1930) by William Faulkner

🌾 Themes: Decay, grotesque characters, psychological horror, social issues

🖊 Notable Authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner

Question 4

Fourth Wave:

Answer 4

Modern & Postmodern Gothic (20th Century–Present)

🦇 Key Works: The Bloody Chamber (1979) by Angela Carter, House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski

📺 Themes: Meta-horror, feminist reinterpretations, psychological horror, unreliable narrators

🖊 Notable Authors: Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Stephen King