Literature · Nineteenth-Century Literature

Gothic Literature

A topic within Nineteenth-Century Literature, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Literature.

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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Makes Victor Frankenstein's abandonment of his creation, not the act of creation itself, the source of the monster's violence, reversing where Gothic horror is usually located.

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Dracula

Bram Stoker

Assembles the story entirely from letters, diaries and news clippings to stage the vampire as a premodern threat defeated only by modern record-keeping, telegraphy and blood transfusion.

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Reading on Gothic Literature

Frankenstein

Dracula

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