Horror and terror Sublime Uncanny Taboo Supernatural Oppositions
Early Gothic (18th C.)
Horace Walpole: Ann Radcliffe: The Charles Brockden Matthew Lewis: The Ann Radcliffe: The Matthew Lewis: The
The Castle of Mysteries of Brown: Wieland Monk 1796 Mysteries of Udolpho Monk 1796
1794
Otranto 1764 Udolpho 1794 1798 Lewis’ novel earned Radcliffe presents rational Lewis places primal
The first Gothic novel The Castle of Protagonist is subject him infamy and the explanations for things desires against the
which introduced Udolpho invokes a to what he believes nickname Matthew which were once thought backdrop of
typical tropes: sense of awe, i.e. to be a ‘divine ‘The Monk’ Lewis. to be supernatural, such repressive religion
as the horrific
castles, supernatural, sublime, and command’, an Antonio rapes decomposing body which
with the titular monk,
pursuit, Isabella as Radcliffe creates the uncanny, Ambrosia, who is is revealed to be just a Antonio.
the stock damsel in ‘female Gothic’ disembodied voice later revealed to be wax figure.
distress. formula, becoming which tells him to his biological sibling
one of the most murder his wife and after he killed their Horace Walpole: The
Castle of Otranto 1764
Charles Brockden influential early family. mother (incest). The supernatural
Brown: Wieland Gothic writers. presence of giants (the
1798 giant’s helmet which falls
Protagonist is subject and kills Conrad)
to what he believes Clara Reeve: The Old
to be a ‘divine English Baron 1777
command’, an Reeve provides a
uncanny, reworking of Walpole’s
disembodied voice The Castle of Otranto
which tells him to removing the ‘violent
murder his wife and machinery’ to make it
family. more sober and
believable. An early
example of how the
eradication of
supernatural elements
makes a Gothic novel
more appealing.
, 19th C. Gothic (and fin-de-siècle)
Arthur Manchen: Mary Shelley Charlotte Perkins Oscar Wilde The Richard Marsh The Robert Louis
The Great God Pan Frankenstein 1818 Gilman The Yellow Picture of Dorian Beetle 1897 Stevenson The
1894 Desolate and isolated Wallpaper 1892 Gray 1890 Ancient Egyptian Strange Case of Dr.
Helen is a violent and Northern landscapes Visions in the Taboos of desire and shape-shifting entity Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
horrific character. wallpaper, and the immorality wreaks havoc on a 1886
Stephen King Emily Brontë climactic scene of the prominent British Opposition between
regards it as one of Wuthering Heights protagonist crawling politician. the super ego and
the best horror 1847 around is the epitome the id, the pure and
stories in the English Yorkshire moors in all of uncanny. Algernon the inherently
language. their sublime, Blackwood The immoral
desolate, awesome Willows 1907
Charlotte Perkins beauty. Two men hunted by Oscar Wilde The
Gilman: The Yellow alien, supernatural Picture of Dorian
Wallpaper 1892 entities after Gray 1890
Climactic scene becoming trapped on Opposition of pure
features the an island surfaces and
protagonist aestheticism with
horrifically crawling in grotesque truths and
an abhuman fashion the consequences of
on the walls. unchecked
narcissism as the
underbelly of society
H.G. Wells The
Island of Dr. Moreau
1896
Opposition between
the coloniser and the
colonised, the primal
and the proper, and
humanity versus
nature.
Early Gothic (18th C.)
Horace Walpole: Ann Radcliffe: The Charles Brockden Matthew Lewis: The Ann Radcliffe: The Matthew Lewis: The
The Castle of Mysteries of Brown: Wieland Monk 1796 Mysteries of Udolpho Monk 1796
1794
Otranto 1764 Udolpho 1794 1798 Lewis’ novel earned Radcliffe presents rational Lewis places primal
The first Gothic novel The Castle of Protagonist is subject him infamy and the explanations for things desires against the
which introduced Udolpho invokes a to what he believes nickname Matthew which were once thought backdrop of
typical tropes: sense of awe, i.e. to be a ‘divine ‘The Monk’ Lewis. to be supernatural, such repressive religion
as the horrific
castles, supernatural, sublime, and command’, an Antonio rapes decomposing body which
with the titular monk,
pursuit, Isabella as Radcliffe creates the uncanny, Ambrosia, who is is revealed to be just a Antonio.
the stock damsel in ‘female Gothic’ disembodied voice later revealed to be wax figure.
distress. formula, becoming which tells him to his biological sibling
one of the most murder his wife and after he killed their Horace Walpole: The
Castle of Otranto 1764
Charles Brockden influential early family. mother (incest). The supernatural
Brown: Wieland Gothic writers. presence of giants (the
1798 giant’s helmet which falls
Protagonist is subject and kills Conrad)
to what he believes Clara Reeve: The Old
to be a ‘divine English Baron 1777
command’, an Reeve provides a
uncanny, reworking of Walpole’s
disembodied voice The Castle of Otranto
which tells him to removing the ‘violent
murder his wife and machinery’ to make it
family. more sober and
believable. An early
example of how the
eradication of
supernatural elements
makes a Gothic novel
more appealing.
, 19th C. Gothic (and fin-de-siècle)
Arthur Manchen: Mary Shelley Charlotte Perkins Oscar Wilde The Richard Marsh The Robert Louis
The Great God Pan Frankenstein 1818 Gilman The Yellow Picture of Dorian Beetle 1897 Stevenson The
1894 Desolate and isolated Wallpaper 1892 Gray 1890 Ancient Egyptian Strange Case of Dr.
Helen is a violent and Northern landscapes Visions in the Taboos of desire and shape-shifting entity Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
horrific character. wallpaper, and the immorality wreaks havoc on a 1886
Stephen King Emily Brontë climactic scene of the prominent British Opposition between
regards it as one of Wuthering Heights protagonist crawling politician. the super ego and
the best horror 1847 around is the epitome the id, the pure and
stories in the English Yorkshire moors in all of uncanny. Algernon the inherently
language. their sublime, Blackwood The immoral
desolate, awesome Willows 1907
Charlotte Perkins beauty. Two men hunted by Oscar Wilde The
Gilman: The Yellow alien, supernatural Picture of Dorian
Wallpaper 1892 entities after Gray 1890
Climactic scene becoming trapped on Opposition of pure
features the an island surfaces and
protagonist aestheticism with
horrifically crawling in grotesque truths and
an abhuman fashion the consequences of
on the walls. unchecked
narcissism as the
underbelly of society
H.G. Wells The
Island of Dr. Moreau
1896
Opposition between
the coloniser and the
colonised, the primal
and the proper, and
humanity versus
nature.
