Critics Flashcards
(5 cards)
1
Q
Christine Gerrard
A
The real horror of Gothic comes from…its power to make us face up to the dark and frightening regions within ourselves.
2
Q
Sue Chaplin about having a rational first person narrator
A
‘render the events yet more peculiar and terrifying’
3
Q
Robert Hume
A
‘There is a persistent suspicion that Gothicism is a poor and illegitimate relation of Romanticism.’
4
Q
Fred Botting
A
Gothic threatens to expose the ‘shadow’ behind the idealised, Romantic, transcendental self.
5
Q
Leslie Fielder
A
‘The essential sociological theme of the American tale of terror…is slavery and black revenge.’
