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What is Gothic Romanticism? Famous authors/works?

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What is Gothic Romanticism? Famous authors/works?

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Gothic romanticism is literature that combines horror and romance. Gothic horror shares many characteristics with literary Romantic , and is generally considered an unexpecting movement. The two genres had their beginnings in 18th century England, and contributed to the rise of poetry and the novel as popular entertainment.
An example of a Gothic romanticism is the book Frankenstein who was written by Mary Shelley. Reason for having it for Gotic is because it expresses emotion healing where it can be found in nature.

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Gothic horror shares many characteristics with literary Romanticism, and is generally considered an offshoot of that wider movement. The two genres had their beginnings in 18th century England, and contributed to the rise of poetry and the novel as popular entertainment. Gothic horror and Romanticism informed and influenced one another over the century of their development, and many Romantic writers dabbled in horror or incorporated supernatural elements into their work.

A Common History

Romanticism developed in the mid-18th century as a reaction against Enlightenment-era Neoclassicism and its emphasis on reason, rationality and order. Early Romanticists drew much of their inspiration from medieval romances such as "Tristan und Isolde" and "Sir Orfeo," with their basis in Arthurian myth. Gothic fiction also drew inspiration from medieval literature, from the use of castles as a setting, to the presence of magic and supernatural villains. Horace Walpole is credited with inventing the gothic genre in his 1764 novel "The Castle of Otranto." Walpole sought to combine the newly popular elements of Romantic literature -- fanciful settings, a heroine, outsized love and sorrow -- with ominous, supernatural elements.

Shared Traits

Gothic horror functions as an extension of the Romantic notion of literary pleasure, that literature should inspire deeply felt emotional responses. Gothic horror sought to instill a pleasing sort of terror and thrill from its emphasis on taboo subjects, such as satanism and matters of the occult, that both fascinated and repelled polite English society. The Romantic, Byronic hero equates to the brooding gothic villain in that both figures are tortured souls placed at the center of action. Romantic works such as the poetry of William Blake and Alfred, Lord Tennyson displayed a fascination with the supernatural also apparent in gothic horror.

Romantic Writers of Gothic Horror

Many prominent Romantic writers rendered works of gothic horror. Lord Byron, perhaps the pre-eminent author of Romantic verse, in 1816 organized a ghost story competition between himself, Percy and Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori. This competition yielded two classic works of Gothic horror in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Polidori's "The Vampyre," which took inspiration for its titular character from Byron's unfinished "Augustus Darvell." Other English Romantics who utilized tropes from gothic horror include Samuel Coleridge, whose "Christabel" and "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" contain Gothic elements, and John Keats, whose "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" features a ghost, a beheading and the exhumation of a corpse.

Romanticism and the Victorian Gothic

The influence of Romanticism and gothic horror peaked in the 1850s, when elements from both genres had become almost standard tropes in popular literature. The works of Charles Dickens, for example, typically centered on an idealized, Romantic-style love affair, and featured grotesque villains and Gothic-style settings, such as the titular manor in "Bleak House." One of the most famous Victorian novels, Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," displays a seamless interweaving of the Romantic and gothic. The novel features supernatural elements, such as Catherine's ghost, and Heathcliff, who embodies the brooding, Byronic hero.

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How Gothic Horror Related to Romanticism in England

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Gothic horror shares many characteristics with literary Romanticism, and is generally considered an offshoot of that wider movement. The two genres had their beginnings in 18th century England, and contributed to the rise of poetry and the novel as popular entertainment. Gothic horror and Romanticism informed and ...

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In 1819 Shelley publish her Frankenstein book. In 1828 William blake and William Hare murder 16 victims and sold their bodies. 1851 Mary Shelley died from a Brain Tumor. Through that time a lot of writes were publishing their books. In 1847, a new Factory act is passed to limit working days of women and children.

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Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London

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Why did Shelley choose to write Frankenstein as a “ghost story?”

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Why did Shelley choose to write Frankenstein as a “ghost story?”

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It all started with Lord Byron telling his students to write a ghost story. Shelley wanted to speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling  horror. She also wanted one to make the reader heart to be beatings.  This story came out of her dream. She had a vision of beast came to earth by human hand, of life without birth.

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Born on a dark and stormy night, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus is a true masterpiece of terror that began as a fireside ghost story and grew into a worldwide phenomenon. Its teenage author, the future Mary Shelley, drew upon her nightmares to come up with a story as challenging as it is chilling. ( Read about "Frankenstein" electronic plants.)

The story took shape during the year without a summer, as 1816 came to be known. The 1815 eruption of the Mount Tambora volcano on the island of Sumbawa (part of modern-day Indonesia) had released vast amounts ash, rock, and sulfuric dust into the air, which dramatically lowered temperatures across many areas of the globe the following year. Reports of odd weather came in from all quarters in 1816: summer frosts in North America, red snow in Italy, and eight weeks of nonstop rain in Ireland.

The bizarre weather in 1816 also left an indelible mark on culture and literature. That year, a group of friends from England had been looking forward to spending the summer months together in a large house, Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva. The group included the poet Lord Byron, his personal physician John Polidori, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley's teenage lover, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.

Mary had met the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in Britain in 1812. Mary was in her mid-teens, and Shelley was a married man and father of two children. The two fell in love, and in 1814, facing opposition to their relationship from Mary's father, the couple eloped to Europe. They would marry in 1818, after the suicide of Shelley's first wife.

From Nightmare to Novel

The outdoor activities they had been eagerly anticipating were washed out by the constant torrential cloudbursts in Switzerland that year. "It proved a wet, ungenial summer," Mary wrote years later, "and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house."

The group were all advocates of Romanticism, a movement that originated in the late 18th century in response to the dispassionate reason of the Enlightenment. Romantics favored nature, passion, and the experience of the individual.

To pass the time indoors, the party held stirring discussions of current scientific theories. They were particularly fascinated by the experiments with electricity carried out the century before by Luigi Galvani, who had observed how an electric current made the legs of dead frogs twitch. They speculated on the possibility of bringing dead matter back to life by using electrical impulses. Mary later recalled: "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given token of such things: perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth."

After all this scientific talk, Lord Byron took the group in a different direction and suggested that each member of the party write a horror story. Out of this parlor game came a new kind of tale, Mary Shelley's terrifying novel, Frankenstein.

Mary, then age 18, had little writing experience. A sensitive, highly cultured woman whose mother had died when she was a baby, her frequent bouts of depression fueled a morbid fascination with death. In later years she would recall how, during that Swiss summer holiday, she experienced a nightmarish vision with "a vividness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie." She described it: "I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy half-vital motion."

In response to Byron's ghost-story game, Mary turned her nightmare into a yarn about a scientist who creates a monstrous creature. Later, back in Britain, she expanded this initial tale into a novel. "At first I thought but of a few pages, of a short tale," she wrote later, "but Shelley [by then her husband] urged me to develop the idea at greater length." Published anonymously at first in 1818, she titled the work Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. Her name appeared on the second edition in 1823. In 1831 she republished the work, changing some of its more radical passages, adding a preface containing a tribute to Shelley's late husband, who drowned in 1822. It is the version that is best known today.

Making a Monster

Mary Shelley's novel tells the story of a Swiss scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein. He attends the lectures at the University of Ingolstadt, in Bavaria, where he is fascinated to learn about the latest advances in science and resolves to "pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation." He sets to work, feverishly studying anatomy and the processes whereby human tissue is generated and corrupted. Then one day in a sudden flash of inspiration, he believes he has discovered "the cause of generation and life" and become "capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter."

Frankenstein carries out mysterious experiments and constructs a titanic, hulking body. "I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet." The creature comes to life, and Frankenstein is horrified by what he has unleashed. A tragic chain of events is set into motion, and by the end of the tale, everything Frankenstein loves has been destroyed by his creation.

Frankenstein reflects the deeply felt concerns of an age conflicted over religion and science. The novel explores the boundary between life and death, and the potential dangers human arrogance might arouse when trying to "play God."

The fact that these big questions still inform the social implications of science in the 21st century is a key reason that the popularity of Mary Shelley's story has only grown over time. Since its first publication, the book has never been out of print. Stage productions of the story followed as early as 1822. In the 20th century dozens of films told and retold the Frankenstein story. The most iconic version was produced by Universal Pictures in 1931 and starred Boris Karloff in what became his signature role.

Curse of Frankenstein

Despite her literary successes, personal tragedy overshadowed much of Mary Shelley's life. She lost her husband in 1822. She suffered several miscarriages, and only one of her children survived to adulthood.

In her later years, widowed and careworn, Mary Shelley became notably less radical in her philosophy than when she had written Frankenstein as a teen. Revising the work for the 1831 edition, she made significant changes to the underlying ideas of the plot. In the first version Dr. Frankenstein makes the creature in the spirit of free, scientific curiosity; his sin is that he then refuses to love and nurture him once he comes to life. The later edition portrays Dr. Frankenstein as a victim of fate; much of the science behind the creation of the creature comes about through chance.

In some ways the very work itself seems to have become Mary Shelley's own "creature": the product of youthful ideas that in later life were replaced with more conventional notions of the forces of fate. As she wrote in a letter in 1827: "The power of Destiny I feel . . .pressing more and more on me, and I yield myself a slave to it."

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Born on a dark and stormy night, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus is a true masterpiece of terror that began as a fireside ghost story and grew into a worldwide phenomenon. Its teenage author, the future Mary Shelley, drew upon her nightmares to come up with a story as challenging as it is chilling.

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What are the literary qualities that comprise Gothic Literature?

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What are the literary qualities that comprise Gothic Literature?

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Characteristic of the Gothic have death, haunted house madness, powerful love and romance. Gothic Lit would also have  Supernatural beings like a monsters,a  ghosts, vampires,  or even a zombies. It will even have some type of  Intense emotion. Some Might have curses like a evil spell. Overall Gothic Lit would have something that is scary and intense

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Gothic Novels: Background and Origin

'It was a dark and stormy night...' We all love a good ghost story or horror film, and these forms of entertainment share some characteristics with the Gothic literature genre, like ghosts, ghouls, and headless spirits that may haunt the main characters.

Gothic literature has a long history dating back to the 18th century. Credited as the first Gothic novel and considered one of the founding texts of the genre is Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, published in 1764. It tells the story of Lord Manfred and the family curse that seems to arise when a stone helmet falls on his son and kills him on the day he is to be married. The event seems to awaken a mysterious trend of curses and mishaps that send the characters in the novel into complete disarray.

Other famous examples of Gothic literature include The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula. Since the Gothic novel has branched off into numerous sub-genres, this lesson will look primarily at the origin of the Gothic in English literature and overview some of the classic texts that created the building blocks for what we know as Gothic today.

Characteristics of the Gothic Novel

The term Gothic novel broadly refers to stories that combine elements from horror and romanticism. The Gothic novel often deals with supernatural events, or events occurring in nature that cannot be easily explained or over which man has no control, and it typically follows a plot of suspense and mystery.

Here is a list of some common elements found in Gothic novels:

Gloomy, decaying setting (haunted houses or castles with secret passages, trapdoors, and other mysterious architecture)

Supernatural beings or monsters (ghosts, vampires, zombies, giants)

Curses or prophecies

Damsels in distress

Heroes

Romance

Intense emotions

We'll look at a few characteristics - the supernatural, madness, and romance - in more detail in the following paragraphs, along with classic examples.

The Supernatural

The Gothic novel arose in part out of the fact that for the English, the late 18th and 19th centuries were a time of great discovery and exploration in the fields of science, religion, and industry; people both revered and questioned the existence of God or a higher power. Gothic novels allowed writers and readers to explore these ideas through the medium of storytelling. Ghosts, death and decay, madness, curses, and so-called 'things that go bump in the night' provided ways to explore fear of the unknown and what control we have as humans over the unknown.

Mary Shelley's classic tale Frankenstein, first published in 1818, offers a powerful example of this desire to explore the unknown even as we fear it. Frankenstein's monster is a man-made creation that eerily merges life and death; Frankenstein constructs his creation from human body parts and imbues him with life, which at once gives him great power and a great fear of that power because he realizes that he's created a being that he cannot entirely control. His fear of his own creation emerges from his recognition that he cannot ever fully understand or control the forces of life and death, despite all of his scientific knowledge.

Madness

The Gothic can also refer to stories involving strange and troubling events that, while they have logical, natural explanations, seem to originate from unexpected forces. Charlotte Bronte employs this element of the Gothic in Jane Eyre, published in 1847. While living in Thornfield Hall as a governess, Jane frequently hears strange noises and laughter coming from the third story of the mansion that no one will explain, and odd things keep happening in the dead of night, such as her master Mr. Rochester's bed catching fire and an attack on a guest. Eventually Jane discovers that all of this is the work of Mr. Rochester's insane wife, who he's hiding in an attic in the third story and who sneaks out at night to cause mayhem.

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'It was a dark and stormy night...' We all love a good ghost story or horror film, and these forms of entertainment share some characteristics with the Gothic literature genre, like ghosts, ghouls, and headless spirits that may haunt the main characters. Gothic literature has a long history dating back to the 18th century.

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Was Mary W. Shelley identified as a Romantic writer? How?

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Was Mary W. Shelley identified as a Romantic writer? How?

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Romantic art shows the imagination and emotions. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in which was her most famous work that shown romanticism. Frankenstein being the main character, is a romantic  character because he represents the Romantic ideals of imagination and innovation. She wrote a Novel using imagery about Frankenstein being a monster. She also uses scientific innovation  for technology advancement.

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This proposal would be an outline for understanding and analyzing the Romantic trends Mary Shelley incorporates in Frankenstein through technological tools. Through technology, analyzing novels becomes easier and more efficient. It is a new method to studying novels in literature courses, whereas the "old" method requires intense, close readings to find key words and themes in the text. Instead, I will be reading digital texts and novels and analyzing them through a program called Voyant Tools. Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis program. It is a program that is designed to make reading and interpretive practices easier for humanities students and the general public. The program allows me to find key terms and themes simply by typing what I want to find in the search bar. This is a quick and efficient way to closely read texts. This method of close reading for digital texts through Voyant Tools allows me to study the Romantic ideas in Frankenstein.
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Romanticism was an intellectual movement that was born from opposition to Enlightenment views that emphasized reason, knowledge, and science. In contrast, Romanticism focused on feelings, love, and imagination. One key example of a romantic literary work is the novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley.

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818, which became her most famous work that embodied Romanticism. Victor Frankenstein, the main character, is a romantic character because he represents the Romantic ideals of imagination and innovation. Other examples of Romanticism in the novel appear when Shelley incorporates vivid imagery of nature. Throughout the novel, Shelley describes the awesomeness of nature. The feelings of Shelley's characters often copy the state of nature around them. For example, the icy descriptions of the land where Walton goes to and where the monster retreats emphasizes the monster's loneliness. The dreary landscape can also mirror the isolation that Walton felt when he traveled into this cold land in the beginning of the book. Another example is the scene where Victor wakes up with regret after creating his monster. He reflects that the morning is "dismal and wet" (Shelley) and he begins to fear his own creation. Shelley repeats this theme where weather conditions are similar to Victor's feelings and thoughts. These descriptions of nature, parallel to a number of emotions that are expressed by the characters, help solidify Frankenstein as one of the greatest Romantic novel of its time.
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In Voyant Tools, the "trends chart" shows the frequency of the words 'horror' and 'creature' in the novel. They fluctuate simultaneously as parallel themes throughout the novel, which shows that the words must be related in that horror is caused by the creature. However, the creature is more horrified than Victor Frankenstein himself. Through close readings in the "Key words in context" tool, of the novel shows through keywords in the context tool in Voyant Tools, the creature is shown to be more horrified than Victor himself. This close reading proves that there is a difference between the words found in context and the words graphed on the trend chart. In Frankenstein corpus, the "Terms Berry" tool shows common words such as wild, wood, and the sea. I misinterpreted the word "wild" in the novel because I thought it was associated with the description of the creature, when in fact, the "Key words in Context" tool showed that wild described the landscape of Frankenstein. Trends may misrepresent the Romanticism imagery in the trends graph, however it is impossible to go wrong with understanding the meaning of words, such as wild, because they are explicitly stated in the text. Voyant Tools-horror, creatures

The combination of technology and digital tools in studying the language in Frankenstein improved the efficiency of my analysis of the novel. Through Voyant Tools, I was able to easily identify key terms and locate trends throughout the novel that embodied Romanticism.

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Analysis of Romanticism in Frankenstein Through Digital Tools

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This proposal would be an outline for understanding and analyzing the Romantic trends Mary Shelley incorporates in Frankenstein through technological tools. Through technology, analyzing novels becomes easier and more efficient. It is a new method to studying novels in literature courses, whereas the "old" method requires intense, close readings to find key words and themes in the text.

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On January of 1818, Her famous book, Frankenstein was published. For some odd reason, almost all her son and daughters are dying. In 1826, She published another book called,"Last Man." Ten years later her father died in London. On February 8, 1951, Mary Shelley dies in her home town by a brain tumor.

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Mary Shelley Timeline of Important Dates

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Shmoop guide to Mary Shelley timeline. Key events and dates in a Mary Shelley timeline, compiled by PhDs and Masters from Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley

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Mary Shelley was born in London in 1797. That same year her mother died. Four years later his dad marries a widow. She has her first poem published called , "Mounseer Nongtongpaw". A few year later she gets pregnant and has a daughter who dies a few weeks later. She got busy in June 1816 in Switzerland to write the best ghost story.

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Mary Shelley Timeline of Important Dates

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Shmoop guide to Mary Shelley timeline. Key events and dates in a Mary Shelley timeline, compiled by PhDs and Masters from Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley