Gothic context timeline

• dates of the Early gohtic period?

  1700s/18th century
• dates of second wave 'romantic gothic'?

  early 1800s
• dates of victorian gothic?

  1837-19th century
• dates of southern gothic?

  1900s-present
• dates of modern gothic?

  1900s-1960s
• dates of postmodern gothic?

  1960-present
• Early gothic writers?

  Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe
• authors of second wave romantic gothic?

  mary shelly
• writers of victorian gothic?

  Poe, Bronte's
• authors of southern gohtic?

  Poe, Faulknes, Harper Lee, Stephen King, Morrison, Anne Rice, Cormac McCarthy
• authors of modern gohtic?


  Daphne de Maurier
• authors of postmodern gothic?

  Carter, Banks, Sarah Waters, Susan Hill
• typical features of early gothic?

  terror, supernatural, imprisonment, forests, women under threat, patriarchal opression
• typical features of romantic gothic?

  science, the sublime, emotion over reason, women, oundaries and limits
• typical features of victorian gothic?

  civilisation v. savagery, opposites, otherness, race and gender differences, psychological complexity
• typical features of the southern gothic?

  trauma, damaged characters, alenation, taboo, the past, memory
• typical features of the modern gothic?

  alenation, gender, transgression
• typical features of the postmodern gothic?

  dislocation, persecution, confinement, role-reversal, gender
• what occured in the early 1700s?

  neo-classicism which re invokes the style of ancient Greece and Rome
• what occured from 1756-1763?


  england at war with France
• what happened from 1775 to 1784?

  american revolution
• what happened from 1789-99?

  french revolution
• what happened in late 1700s-1800s?

  industrial revolution
• what movement occured from late 1700s to early 1800s?

  romantic movement
• what did the romantic movement focus on?

  Emotion and individualism.
• what happened from mid 1700s onwards?

  scientific experiments such as galvanism which explored the origins of life
• what happened in the late 1800s?

  burgeoning middle class due to the industrial revolution
• what did the Victorian gothic focus on?

  incorporated the gothic into the domestic and detective novel
• what happened from 1815 onwards?

  rise of the British empire and colonal expansion
• what happened in 1859?

  'The origin of species' was published
• what happened in the 1930s?

  Jim Crow laws
• what happened from the 1950s-60s?

  civil rights movement
• what happened from 1914-18?

  World War I
• what happened from 1939-45?

  World War II
• what happened in 1948?

  universal suffrage
• what happened in the 1960s and 1970s?

  womens liberation
• what happened in 1989?

  invention of the internet
• when was dracula released?

  1897
• when was the Bloody chamber and other Stories released?

  1979