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Revision as of 18:05, 2 February 2003 by NuclearWinner (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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 parodizes the Gothic novel by setting up the atmosphere of doom and sweeping it away with hearty common sense and normalcy.