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| The '''Gothic novel''' can be said to have been born with "]" by ]. | The '''Gothic novel''' can be said to have been born with "]" (1764) by ]. | ||
| Prominent features of many gothic novels are mystery, doom, decay, old buildings with ghosts in them, madness, hereditary curses and so on. | Prominent features of many gothic novels are mystery, doom, decay, old buildings with ghosts in them, madness, hereditary curses and so on. | ||
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| *<i>The mysteries of Udolpho</i> (1794) by ] | |||
| *<i>The Monk</i> (1796) by ] | |||
| *<i>Melmoth the Wanderer</i> (1820) by ] | |||
| ]'s <i>Northanger Abbey</i> features a young woman who reads too many gothic novels.... | |||
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The Gothic novel can be said to have been born with "The Castle of Otranto" (1764) 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.
Examples:
- The mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe
- The Monk (1796) by Matthew Lewis
- Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Robert Maturin
Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey features a young woman who reads too many gothic novels....