Gothic Novels (1 of 3)

Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto.
The effect of Gothic fiction depends on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literacy pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initiated by Walpole. Gothic literature is intimately associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. In a way similar to the gothic revivalists' rejection of the clarity and rationalism of the neoclassical style of the Enlightened Establishment, the literary Gothic embodies an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion, the thrills of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime, and a quest for atmosphere. The ruins of gothic buildings gave rise to multiple linked emotions by representing the inevitable decay and collapse of human creations—thus the urge to add fake ruins as eyecatchers in English landscape parks. English Gothic writers often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, characterized by harsh laws enforced by torture, and with mysterious, fantastic, and superstitious rituals. In literature such Anti-Catholicism had a European dimension featuring Roman Catholic excesses such as the Inquisition (in southern European countries such as Italy and Spain).
Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets, and hereditary curses.
The stock characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted maidens, femmes fatales, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, angel, fallen angel, the beauty and the beast, revenants, ghosts, perambulating skeletons, the Wandering Jew, and the Devil himself.
Music by J.S.Bach, 'Passacaglia in C minor'

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• gothic
• novels
• bach
• horror

[tangerineblu]

some really fantastic images, you are so generous! thanks!

[shivabel]

I'm very happy you like my videos so much...This is a big joy for me, thanks to you! :-)

[CaptainBluebear08]

I believe this is Stokowski conducting.

[shivabel]

That's right. Bravo! ;-)

[shivabel]

Non poteva mancare un omaggio ad una mia grande passione: i romanzi gotici. Parafrasando Julien Gracq, potrei dire: 'Possano essere mobilitate qui le possenti meraviglie dei Misteri di Udolpho, del Castello d'Otranto e della casa Usher per comunicare a queste fiacche immagini un po' della forza magica che hanno serbata le loro catene, i loro fantasmi e le loro bare'.

[XAstoriaGreengrassX]

i adore gothic novels. they are simply the best.

[backflip369159]

can anyone suggest me what should i start with?

[ladymorticya]

Sooo great !!!

[Toracube]

Great Work !!! Lovely presentation.

[HerrCrowmann]

To me, the Gothic is the only form of literature I can stand.

[simplysum]

all my favorite novels in one video!!! it's awesome, thank you very much!!! also you know where i could find those pictures (in the internet )??? some of them are pretty rare...

[XxKulturxX]

VERY great and awesome :) :)

thank for upload

satan is with us

[Archhistbuff]

Bellissima!  Grazie!

[SPRiNGFiELDfbs]

totally awesome. thanks for uploading this.

[yotuveuncoche]

Fantastic!