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Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...
Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...
generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...
"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...
is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...
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...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...
The second analysis involves Victors perspectives of women and the monsters perspective of women. Victor is obsessed with his moth...
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 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 ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...
In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in terms of the author's literary device usage and its Gothic c...
his right hand in blessing toward the Virgin, who raises both palms in what is obviously intended to be surprise. The overall ef...
a major representative example and therefore more widely reviewed. Following subsections discuss the changes in cathedral constru...
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...
during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...
farmer with his cow passing a roadside shrine on the way to market. 1st c. B.C. (Munich: Staatl. Antikensammlung)" (Early Roman Em...
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 is of special interest in regard to the varying influence of the Christian faith on the sculpture that was prod...
Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...
this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...
In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...
This paper discusses various elements of Shelley's novel that classify the work as Gothic, one of the nineteenth-century's literar...