Gothic Revision by Magisha Somasekaran Year 13 https://padlet.com/14magsoma/ttnc83gf47gvkuex en-us 2021-01-12 10:30:49 UTC 2021-01-12 11:08:47 UTC hello@padlet.com 14magsoma https://padlet.com/14magsoma/ttnc83gf47gvkuex/wish/1077926487  THE REPROOF OF CURIOSITY:
- Carter repeatedly declared her interest in the myth of woman and the construction of sexuality.
- In 1979, her interest coincided in the publication of two different but related works, The Bloody Chamber and the Sadeian Woman.
- Sade’s attempt to demythologise motherhood and femininity was therefore in her mind as she was revising Perrault’s classic fairytales and he became the model for Bluebeard. 
- Since pornography and religion have informed men’s phantasies about women, his work is integral to Carter’s interrogation of the Western imagination in pursuit of mythologising woman.
- Carter rewrote Bluebeard from the point of view of his fourth wife, an impecunious young pianist with a belief in romance. Instead of becoming victim to her husband’s view that all women are whores who should be punished, her brief marriage causes her to see the ideology of romance and the idealisation of the feminine woman, and thereby to take her place in the world as a fully responsible human being.]]> 2021-01-12 10:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/14magsoma/ttnc83gf47gvkuex/wish/1077926487 14magsoma https://padlet.com/14magsoma/ttnc83gf47gvkuex/wish/1077939031 2021-01-12 10:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/14magsoma/ttnc83gf47gvkuex/wish/1077939031 ORIGINS AND CONVENTIONS OF GOTHIC LITERATURE- 14magsoma https://padlet.com/14magsoma/ttnc83gf47gvkuex/wish/1077953940 -  ORIGINS AND INITIAL RECEPTION OF GOTHIC LITERATURE- Gothic literature was born out of the Romantic movement.
* Gothic writers took the concept of revering of the natural world and explored its darker side.
* The first Gothic novel was Horace Walpole’s ‘The Castle of Otranto’ in 1764.
* Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. The novel was first published in 1897.
* Arguably one of the most famous examples of Gothic literature.
-       As a genre, Gothic literature was initially not taken very seriously.
* Critic Sue Chaplin suggests that this may have been because Gothic fiction was “perceived to be read by women” and, as such, was considered an “inferior literary mode,” against the “higher intellectual aspirations of the Romantic movement.”
-       Gothic writing is inspired by Gothic architecture.
* Antiquated buildings in isolated, rugged locations are a quintessential Gothic feature.
* Castle Dracula in the Carpathian Mountains is no exception to this rule, as is the ruined abbey at Carfax. 
*  Count Dracula’s purchase of this property brings Jonathan Harker to Transylvania at the novel’s opening.
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