ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Georgian Architecture, Elegy, Gothic Fiction
16 Jan 2018
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Gothic literature: originated in the mid-eighteenth century; reaction to enlightenment empiricism. Reimagines elements of medievalism, developed in the romantic period (1785-1832), continues into the present, includes different genres such as essays, poetry and novels; focuses on producing thrill and sensations in terror in the reader. Ghosts and other supernatural figures; closer to the romance than to the novel as it embraces and fragmentary other than the whole; productive of a particular affect: pleasure in scenes of terror. Georgian architecture: the idea of decorum (the match of form and content; words and subject) where is shows balance and order- all the principles of reformation shown in stone. Burke theorised the following : you feel a sense of relief because you are safe, you experience the potential danger and you live vicariously through it. It is going to cause you to contemplate the magnificence of god when you are faced with a vast, amazing object.
