The Gothic novel born with the "Caslte of Otranto" by Orace Walpole. The fine taste for mistery, fear and imagination si strictly connected with the English romantic period (Coleridge) |
The Gothic novel can be said to have been born with "[The Castle of Otranto]?" by Horace Walpole. Prominent features of many gothic novels are mystery, doom, decay, old buildings with ghosts in them, madness, hereditary curses and so on. /Talk? |