Danger, romance, mystery, violence, fearful spectres, castles, banditti – it's all here. Does it? Why did Gothic begin in the eighteenth century? How does it work as a powerful, disturbing, dangerous genre? How did it challenge philosophers and aesthetic thinkers? What can we learn from parodies and satires of Gothic? What questions does it stage and why do they continue to compel and fascinate? Could there be a 'Female Gothic'? This module explores a selection of Gothic texts – poems and novels - to investigate the genre's variety of forms and its appeal to readers.
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