History Of Gothic Subculture

Horace Walpole can be accredited with the creation of the horror genre and specific characteristics like a “…foreign location, a dark and ominous castle, and a naïve young woman fleeing from an evil, lustful man.” Walpole’s most well know work, The Castle of Otranto, has set a precedent for being the first novel that made fictitious horror popular and has also become the basis for all other horror literature and film. An associate professor at the Federated University of Australia by the name of Meg Tasker, who was noted in the BBC magazine article, The Castle of Otranto: The creepy tale that launched gothic fiction, says that Walpole took inspiration from “a whole range of literary sources and folklore, German as well as English and Scottish”. The BBC’s magazine also notes that works by William Shakespeare held influence over Walpole and his novel with the addition of satire and comic relief to break up the more melodramatic heavy moments within the novel. With Walpole’s novel being the catalyst, it influenced a number of writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen

The American Romantic literary period was during the time of westward expansion. The main ideas of romantic writers included imagination, intuition, idealism, inspiration, and individuality. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the best gothic writers of the romantic era publishing, over fifty stories. The Cask of Amontillado is one of Poe's great short stories about pride and revenge. Washington Irving was another author of the romantic period who wrote gothic literature. His most famous work was probably The Devil and Tom Walker which is a story about greed and decisions. The Cask of Amontillado and The Devil and Tom Walker are by two different prominent authors, but are very similar in their gothic elements.

Gothic has its origins from the Germanic tribes who invaded and plundered Rome and other European nations during the third, fourth, and fifth centuries. The word Gothic became connected to words like barbaric and savage and was integrated into the Middle ages due to the time period itself being referred to as unenlightened and superstitious (Architecture). Its first entrance into literature occurred in Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto which was quickly used by other artists for their literary works. There are many small characteristics that distinguish Gothic literature, though the largest features that describe Gothic literature are

The Gothic novel, made during a time of innovation, spontaneity, and freedom of thought and expression. Created in the 18 and 1900's, we know this better today as "horror", which are popular in books and movies. Gothic and Romantic author Mary Shelley took the world by storm with her dark Gothic novel,"Frankenstein". One of the first and most widely known novels still popular today. During the time of the romantic period society in in Britain was very different from society today, it was elegant, polite, and oppressive. Women had little to no rights or prospects and should only aspire to marriage. Which makes Mary Shelley different, she was more independent, raised to be feminist, and wrote her own stories, very different from the woman society

The evening is young, and the night is fresh. You walk up to the Mag Bar in Louisville, Kentucky. The sounds of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” on the loud speakers fills the streets around you. There is a small pause, and you hear Nathaniel Revell over the mic introducing the live entertainment. You are more than ready to start this event clad in shades of ebony from head to toe, but notice newer faces to the community walking in before you. Looking on the ground you pick up the advertisement that has fallen off of a nearby light pole. In the advertisement, "Goth Prom", Nathaniel Revell creates a creepy background with contrasting colors and macabre imagery, which instills a feeling of comfort for the gothic

Mary Shelley creates a sense of gloom, mystery, and suspense, in her novel Frankenstein. The book generates these perceptions though the setting and the terrible events that go on throughout the book. Gothic novels came from the English genre of fiction popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. Gothics are defined by the mysterious and horrific atmosphere, similar to that of Mary Shelley’s writing. Frankenstein is a gothic novel because of the combined elements of extreme and sinister landscapes, horrifying events, supernatural elements, and a passionate, wilful villain.

Even though it is mysterious and cannot be fathomed, just like Romanticism, the mystery in Gothic Literature is horrific, while in Romanticism it is beautiful. Gothic fiction relates to prudishness (especially in the Victorian era) as it focuses on taboo subjects, such as: sex, vice, and murder. Therefore, it is, to great extent, going beyond peoples emotional limitations. To add to that, the typical feature of Gothic Literature would be expressing nature in the threat of monsters, ghosts, or in other words, supernatural forces conflicting with humanity. On the whole, a great representation of these gothic and romantic influences would be the novel Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, which was published in 1818 and written during the Romantic Period.

Walpole's The Castle of Otranto was the first example of a Gothic novel. Gothic, by definition, is a genre of literature characterized by a brooding, gloomy setting, and mysterious, sinister, or violent events. Lady Croom's reference to The Castle of Otranto and to The Mysteries of Udolpho, which is another Gothic novel by a later author, Ann Radcliffe, is one technique used by Stoppard to describe Noakes' style. In 1809 Gothic novels were widely popular so it is safe to assume that all of Stoppard's seventeenth century characters would have heard of the

During the first half of the nineteenth century the Romanticism movement was starting to reach its apex. However, one of its sub-genres would have a longer impact on literature. It was gothic fiction, a genre that according to study.com “involved elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, but it also included romantic elements of nature and very high emotion, such as fear and suspense, and often concentrated on individuality”. The most famous writer of gothic fiction during the early to mid nineteenth century was Edgar Allen Poe.

Gothic was first used as a term of contempt during the late renaissance. The Goth's were barbarians- which leads to many theories as to why "Goth" was the chosen title for a style that required extreme engineering as well as technical and artistic know how. Since then vast efforts have been made to rename the style with a term that better encompasses the idea of gothic style.

The first known piece of gothic literature was Walpole’s ‘’The Castle of Otranto: A gothic story’’, which arrived in 1764(Britannica Pg.1). The audience was shocked by the bold movement of Walpole when he published his novel, which introduced new themes no one has ever seen before. The novel’s themes consist in murder, betrayal, and creepy places. This new and exciting piece of work slowly, without the knowledge of the author or everyone else, started the genre Gothic, which until these day is still alive. This genre is normally recognized because of its elements such as creepy settings, ghosts, spirits, unknown monsters, curses, omens, visions, death, mystery, tragedy and romances. ´´What scares me is what scares you. We´re all afraid of the same things. That is why horror is such a powerful genre.´´ John Carpenter once said trying to explain why horror and its basis gothic literature were and are so famous and lucrative. Gothic literature since the beginning has been jaw-dropping and scandalous for using themes other genres are afraid of introducing. The popular genre was short-lived due to the horrors of real life, then it picked up again in the 1920’s by horror film industry and is still a very lucrative, famous and well received.

Gothic Literature is a style of literature popularized during the late 18th century and the early 19th century with the publication of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. This style usually portrays fantastic tales dealing with the horror, despair, the grotesque and other “dark” subjects. Characteristics of gothic literature includes the presence of victims and their victimizers who usually hold immense powers along with their evil purpose. The setting of this kind of literature generally takes place within impenetrable walls, whether physical or mental. This setting creates a sense of hopeless isolation within the victim. The summarization of the characters and situation creates an atmosphere pervaded by a sense of mystery, darkness, oppressiveness, fear, and doom.

Gothic novels are stories written in the gothic genre which is a literature genre of fiction characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror. This genre rose to, and flourished in, popularity during the 18th and 19th centuries. One of the most famous novels of this Genre is Frankenstein, also known as the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein is about a scientist who creates a grotesque sentient monster in an unorthodox science experiment. Other examples of popular Gothic books include; The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, Dracula by Bram Stoker, and The Monk: A Romance by Matthew Lewis. The Gothic genre, as well as most

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel written by Horace Walpole. It is regarded as the first Gothic novel, initiating a new literary genre which became extremely popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Gothic literature originated and was very strong at the time of the Romantic Writers Movement. They were very popular and had authors such as Horace Walpole who wrote “The Castle of Oranto”, and novels such as “Frankenstein” and “Dracula“. Gothic novels all had a similarity between each other. They always had typical Gothic features which alleviated the novel in one way or another. For example, most Gothic novels involved settings which generally added fear and suspense. They were always quite dark, scary and isolated. Also the characters of the Gothic novels never seemed to fit in the community and the society. They usually were handicapped, disabled or deformed