Victorian gothic

Cards (9)

    • ‘Fin de Siècle notions of decadence and degeneration’ Punter 
  • ‘There is a progressive internalisation of horror, the idea that the monsters are not out there, but to be found within’ Smith
  • ‘the Gothic was born out of the Enlightenment’ – Punter
  • ‘The Victorians were obsessed with death’ Hogle
  • ‘The Gothic is an attempt to come to terms with the anxieties of modernity’ -Punter
    • Victorian Gothic novels are ‘often intricately bound up with a profound sense of human corruption’ Stewart  
    • The industrial revolution meant ‘nature was no longer separate from human activity but irrevocably meshed together with it’ Stewart  
    • ‘The first decades of the 20th century, preoccupied by the speed of technological and economic development, seem to have little time for monsters’ Botting  
  • ‘The Gothic novel can be seen as a form of protest against patriarchal society’ Botting