Gothic tropes

• Fallen women was any women who had sexual experience outside of marriage
• The new women was independent, educated and uninterested in marriage and children
• Victorian fin de siecle was an age of tremendous change, art, politics, society were revolutionised due to new theories
• Marriage and mother hood were no longer idealised
• dandy threatened masculinity
• Horror describes fear generated by a physical shock actually seen or experienced
• Terror is fear generated through what is uncertain or obscure
• The supernatural is above nature; mysterious, inexplicable, abnormal
• Obscurity is things not understood or seen clearly
• Guilt social, familial , individual connected to ideas of transgression and the revenant
• Misogyny in gothic literature , woman are often depicted as distressed heroines, overly emotional, as damsels in distress unable to think for themselves
• The doppelgänger is a double of a character
• The other is anything which is different from ourselves
• The uncanny are things which are strange and eerie
• The revenant is something that comes back to haunt us
• Repression is the burial of emotions, memories and knowledge
• Transgression is violating laws of society
• Anthropomorphism is something that is only partially human and possibly in the process of becoming something monstrous
• Irrationality is anything which cannot be understood or explained
• Orientalism is a mysterious opposition to the west
• Romanticism is a way of thinking and writing which transformed literature in the 18th and early 19th century
• The sublime is an overpowering sense of the greatness and power of nature
• Transgression also known as:

  -Rebellion

  -Deviation

  -Subversion