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Comparative Analysis of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto

Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...

Classic Literature and the Gothic Motif

Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...

The Architectural Features of Notre Dame and St. Etienne

generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...

Literary Themes

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

Ancient Religions, Gothic Cathedrals and Romantic Heroes

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

Victorian Reading Habits: The Thrill of Transgression

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

The Thrill of Transgression: “Frankenstein” and “Manfred”

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

Art History Questions

content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...

Spread of Christianity and Development of Trade/Capitalism as Two Significant Contributions of the Middle Ages ‘Gothic World’ to the Phenomenon of Civilization

and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...

Gothic and Symbolic Elements in the Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulker and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe

Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...

Gothic in Literature

is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...

Analyzing Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The second analysis involves Victors perspectives of women and the monsters perspective of women. Victor is obsessed with his moth...

Dracula Gothic Fiction Genre

In eight pages this research paper examines the genre of Gothic fiction in a consideration of Dracula by Bram Stoker. There are 4...

Discussing Catherine Morland's and Jane Austen's Heroines

In five pages heroines Northanger Abbey and The Female Quixote The Adventures of Arabella are discussed in order to compare romant...

Vindication of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how Jane Austen's once dismissed and critically panned novel has vindicated itself because of t...

Gothic Romance Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...

Gothic Genre of Edgar Allan Poe

In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...

Gothic Characteristics of The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in terms of the author's literary device usage and its Gothic c...

Late Medieval Literature and Art and Human Body Rediscovery

his right hand in blessing toward the Virgin, who raises both palms in what is obviously intended to be surprise. The overall ef...

Gothic Cathedrals of 1100 to 1500 A.D.

a major representative example and therefore more widely reviewed. Following subsections discuss the changes in cathedral constru...

Gothic Architectural Development and Culture

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the impact of culture on Gothic architecture in a consideration of Paris's Notre Dame innova...

Gothic Architecture and London's Westminster Abbey

In ten pages this paper analyzes the Gothic architectural aspects of London's Westminster Abbey. Seven sources are cited in the b...

Scientific Progress and its Threat in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...

Gothic and Roman Design and Art

farmer with his cow passing a roadside shrine on the way to market. 1st c. B.C. (Munich: Staatl. Antikensammlung)" (Early Roman Em...

Cathedrals of Gothic Architecture

most powerful elements of the style of the gothic cathedrals, as seen in the Arts and Crafts movement, is that which relates to st...

Medieval Sculpture

Medieval sculpture is of special interest in regard to the varying influence of the Christian faith on the sculpture that was prod...

Gothic Movement in Literature

Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...

Austen, Northanger Abbey

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

Gothic Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Their Domestic Settings

In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a Gothic Masterpiece

This paper discusses various elements of Shelley's novel that classify the work as Gothic, one of the nineteenth-century's literar...