Modern Gothic 1900-80

Question 1

1919

Answer 1

Freud’s The Uncanny introduces psychological theory of the familiar made strange

Question 2

1938

Answer 2

du Maurier’s Rebecca reinvents the haunted house as Manderley, dreams, ghosts, exploration of the psyche

Question 3

1948

Answer 3

Jackson’s The Lottery explores communal violence beneath seemingly idyllic small-town America

Question 4

1950s

Answer 4

Cold War paranoia fuels Gothic themes of invasion and contamination

Question 5

1959

Answer 5

Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House redefines the haunted house as a psychological manifestation of

Question 6

1966

Answer 6

Foucault’s Of Other Spaces develops concept of heterotopia (a place that suspends or inverts the usual norms and relationships of a culture)

Question 7

1975

Answer 7

King’s Salem’s Lot reimagines vampire mythology in small-town American setting

Question 8

1976

Answer 8

Rice’s Interview with the Vampire humanises monsters and introduces Gothic romanticism to popular culture

Question 9

1979

Answer 9

Carter’s The Bloody Chamber- feminist retellings of fairy tales with Gothic sensibilities

Question 10

MODERN GOTHIC OVERALL

Answer 10

Psychological depth

Gender roles

Transformation of traditional Gothic spaces