‘at the heart of the gothic text is the tension provided by the possible violation of innocence – the concept of virtue in distress’
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Botting
‘Gothic fictions seemed to promote vice and violence, giving free reign to selfish ambitions and sexual desires beyond the prescriptions of law or familial duty
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Botting
Illegitimate power and violence is not only put on display but threatens to consume the world of civilised and domestic values.’
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Kidd
Gothic texts tend to be about transgression, overstepping boundaries and entering a realm of the unknown’
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Bunten
‘In many gothic novels the castle represents a threatening, sexually rapacious masculine world in which women are trapped and persecuted.’
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Chaplin
‘The gothic should be considered as a mode of writing that responds in certain diverse yet recognisable ways to the conflicts and anxieties of its historical moment’
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Radcliffe
Terror awakens the faculties to a higher degree of life’
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Trott
The sublime is associated with masculine qualities of strength and size’
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Kidd
The Ancien Regime is exemplified in old buildings – castles, abbeys and so on’
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Kidd
‘The idea of forbidden fruit, the locked casket, room or house is the cliched catalyst that drives the majority of the gothic’
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
‘Gothic fictions seemed to promote vice and violence, giving free reign to selfish ambitions and sexual desires beyond the prescriptions of law or familial duty
Back
Botting
Card 3
Front
Illegitimate power and violence is not only put on display but threatens to consume the world of civilised and domestic values.’
Back
Card 4
Front
Gothic texts tend to be about transgression, overstepping boundaries and entering a realm of the unknown’
Back
Card 5
Front
‘In many gothic novels the castle represents a threatening, sexually rapacious masculine world in which women are trapped and persecuted.’
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