Essays 181 - 210
of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...
that revered the spiritualism of the Middle Ages. The Gothic approach emphasized the complexity of interior space, while the exte...
In five pages this paper discusses the Gothic aspects of the writings by Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe. Five sources are ...
In seven pages this paper considers the Gothic characteristics of Mary Shelley's writings in an analysis of short stories 'Transfo...
In seventeen pages Mackintosh's, Butterfield's, Viollet le Duc's, and Pugin's works are among the topics discussed in the building...
"what the character thinks the truth is, as revealed in speech or action, and what an audience or reader knows the truth to be." ...
in society Introduction One way that art history has been studied is to trace the development of the realistic portrayal of the h...
In five pages three works by the Bronte sisters Villette and Shirley by Charlotte Bronte and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne B...
writes that there was "something too extraordinary in the figure of this man, and too singular in his conduct to pass unnoticed by...
of fresco (painting on wet plaster) painting, but hand copied manuscripts also became small jewels of painting, called "illuminati...
In five pages this paper considers contemporary cloning within the context of the Gothic novel by Mary Shelley. Three sources are...
This paper discusses various elements of Shelley's novel that classify the work as Gothic, one of the nineteenth-century's literar...
In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...
In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...
A definition of the Gargoyle is provided. This type of sculpture most prevalent during the Gothic period is discussed. This five ...
This paper discusses Shelley's novel as it fits into two separate literary styles of the nineteenth century, Gothic and Romanticis...
In five pages heroines Northanger Abbey and The Female Quixote The Adventures of Arabella are discussed in order to compare romant...
In five pages this paper discusses how Jane Austen's once dismissed and critically panned novel has vindicated itself because of t...
In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...
In eight pages this research paper examines the genre of Gothic fiction in a consideration of Dracula by Bram Stoker. There are 4...
In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in terms of the author's literary device usage and its Gothic c...
In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses the impact of culture on Gothic architecture in a consideration of Paris's Notre Dame innova...
In ten pages this paper analyzes the Gothic architectural aspects of London's Westminster Abbey. Seven sources are cited in the b...
his right hand in blessing toward the Virgin, who raises both palms in what is obviously intended to be surprise. The overall ef...
the building becomes cumbersome and can collapse. The solutions were varied and brilliant: masons developed a "ribbed vault, in w...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...
and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...
"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...