Gothic literature

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Gothic literature is a genre of fiction that emerged in the late 18th century, characterized by mysterious and supernatural elements, dark and atmospheric settings, and themes of terror, decay, and the uncanny.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fiction genre
literary genre
developedFrom Romanticism
firstMajorAuthor Horace Walpole
firstMajorWork The Castle of Otranto
hasCharacteristic dark atmosphere
decay
emphasis on emotion
exploration of fear
gloomy settings
haunted spaces
isolation
madness
melodrama
mysterious elements
mystery
psychological tension
ruined architecture
sublime landscapes
supernatural elements
terror
the uncanny
hasModernForm contemporary Gothic fiction
hasSubgenre Female Gothic
Gothic romance
Southern Gothic
Urban Gothic
hasTheme death
decay
entrapment
family secrets
good versus evil
religious anxiety
repressed desires
the past haunting the present
the supernatural
the uncanny double
transgression
hasTypicalCharacterType Byronic hero
ghosts
monks and nuns
persecuted heroine
tyrannical villain
hasTypicalPlotElement family curse
hidden identities
imprisonment
prophecies
secret passageways
hasTypicalSetting castles
isolated mansions
remote landscapes
ruined abbeys
influenced Gothic cinema
Gothic fantasy
Gothic revival in architecture
Southern Gothic
surface form: Southern Gothic literature

dark romanticism
horror fiction
influencedBy medievalism
sentimental fiction
the sublime in aesthetics
languageOfOrigin English
notableAuthor Ann Radcliffe
Bram Stoker
Charles Maturin
Charlotte Brontë
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Brontë
Mary Shelley
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Sheridan Le Fanu
notableWork Dracula
Mary Shelley
surface form: Frankenstein

Jane Eyre
The Castle of Otranto
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Monk
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Wuthering Heights
originatedInPeriod late 18th century
originatedInRegion Great Britain
surface form: Britain
periodOfFlourishing 19th century
late 18th century
relatedGenre dark fantasy
ghost story
horror fiction
relatedMovement Gothic Revival
Romanticism
studiedInDiscipline cultural studies
literary studies

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Emily Gerard fieldOfWork Gothic literature
Ada Reis influencedBy Gothic literature
Graveyard school hasInfluenced Gothic literature
Ambrosio literaryPeriod Gothic literature
this entity surface form: Romantic era Gothic
Edward Hyde literaryGenre Gothic literature
this entity surface form: Gothic fiction