ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Gothic Fiction, Ghost Story, Amelia Edwards
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Reason and superstition: gothich started in mid 18 century the height of age of reason , repressed irrantionaly. Gothic to ghosts: gothic favors exotic locals, melodramatic plot, victorian ghost stories aften embrace a measure of realism: Attention to psychological realism: ghost stories often reveal the anxieties oif society that created them. What inner tendancies did they fear might take hold. Mary liz braddon: evelines visitant , penny dreadfuls . Highly competitive field, mostly men, this dictated the themes in the texts. The amount of crime, treachery and murder by the reader is something terrible : power of magical thinking. I will b ewith you whne you least look to see me I will come to you when your life seems brightest. Neither in my days of gloom nor in my days of happiness had i been troubled by the recollection of andres blasphemous oath. Almost telepathically, the haunting is transferred to.
