# Gothic literature - [A Guide to the Gothic](https://pressbooks.pub/guidetogothic/front-matter/chronology/) - [A Brief History of Gothic Horror – NYPL](https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/10/18/brief-history-gothic-horror) > [!cite]- Reference > ```dataview > TABLE WITHOUT ID > link(file.path, title) AS "Title", > type AS "Type", > keywords AS "Keywords" > FROM "50 Reference" > WHERE contains(keywords, this.file.link) > SORT type, title asc > ``` ## Pre-Gothic (1721 – 1763) - [[burke1757PhilosophicalEnquiryOrigin|A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful]] (1757) by [[Edmund Burke]] - Graveyard Poets as a pre-cursor to gothic and pre-[[Romanticism|Romantic]] - "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by [[Thomas Gray]] - "Night-Piece on Death" by [[Thomas Parnell]] - The Grave by [[Robert Blair]] - Night-Thoughts by [[Edward Young]] - Illustrated by [[William Blake]] - Early gothic - [[walpole1764CastleOtranto|The Castle of Otranto]] (1764) - On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (1773) Anna Letitia Aikin (Barbauld) ## High Gothic (1789 – 1813) - The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789) by [[Ann Radcliffe]] - Sicilian Romance (1790) by [[Ann Radcliffe]] - Minerva Press founded in 1790 - Sentimental and Gothic fiction - Female readers became authors - Romance of the Forest (1791) by [[Ann Radcliffe]] - [[lewis1796Monk|The Monk]] (1796) by Matthew Lewis - The Italian (1797) by [[Ann Radcliffe]] - Written in response to [[lewis1796Monk|The Monk]] - Wieland (1798) by Charles Brockden Brown » first [[Literature, Gothic (American)|American Gothic]] novel - The Mysteries of Udolpho (1798) by [[Ann Radcliffe]] - [[Gothic Chapbooks]] 1800–1825 - Cheap gothic novel knock-offs on low-quality paper - Sold between one and six pence each - Disappated when cost of paper decreased and advancements in printing technology gave way to serialized magazines ## Late Gothic (1814 – 1836) - Waverly (1814) by Sir Walter Scott - [[relationships at Villa Diodati, 1816]] - Manfred (1817) by [[Lord Byron]] » ghosts - Northanger Abbey (1793) by [[Jane Austen]] » a Gothic parody that references: - Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) by Eliza Parsons - Clermont (1798) by Regina Maria Roche - The Mysterious Warning, a German Tale (1796) by Eliza Parsons - The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest (1794) by "Ludwig Flammenberg" (pseudonym for Carl Friedrich Kahlert; translated by Peter Teuthold) - The Midnight Bell (1798) by Francis Lathom - The Orphan of the Rhine (1798) by Eleanor Sleath - Horrid Mysteries (1796) which is an abridged translation of the Marquis de Grosse's The Genius by Peter Will. - [[shelley1818FrankensteinModernPrometheus|Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus]] (1818) by [[Mary Shelley]] - [[polidori1819Vampyre|The Vampyre]] (1819) by [[John Polidori]] - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) by Washington Irving (American Gothic) - Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg - On the Supernatural in Poetry (1826) by [[Ann Radcliffe]] - Draws upon [[Edmund Burke|Edmund Burke's]] [[burke1757PhilosophicalEnquiryOrigin|A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful|sublime]] to distinguish between terror and horror ## Victorian Gothic (1837 – 1898) - Short stories by [[Edgar Allan Poe]] - Jane Eyre (1847) by [[Charlotte Brontë]] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) by [[Anne Brontë]] - Not Gothic, but pulls the journal/letter framwork from Gothic - Wuthering Heights (1853) by [[Emily Brontë]] - Villette (1853) by [[Charlotte Brontë]] - [[collins1859WomanWhite|Woman in White]] (1859) by [[Wilkie Collins]] - Moonstone (1869) by [[Wilkie Collins]] » the first detective novel - Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) by [[Charles Dickens]] - [[stevenson1886StrangeCaseDoctor|The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll & Mr. Hyde]] (1886) by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] - [[wilde1890PictureDorianGray|The Picture of Dorian Gray]] (1890) by [[Oscar Wilde]] - [[lefanu1897Carmilla|Carmilla]] (1897) by [[Sheridan Le Fanu]] - [[stoker1897Dracula|Dracula]] (1897) by [[Bram Stoker]] - [[james1898TurnScrew|The Turn of the Screw]] (1898) by [[Henry James]] ## Modern Gothic (1899 – 1945) - The influence of German Expressionism on [[Dracula (1931)]] and [[Frankenstein (1931)]] - [[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)]] - [[Nosferatu (1922)]] - [[The Hands of Orlac (1924)]] - [[Metropolis (1927)]] - The Call of Cthulhu published in Weird Tales (1928) by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] ## Post-Modern Gothic (1946 – 2001) - We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) by [[Shirley Jackson]] - Rosemary's Baby (1967) by [[Ira Levin]] - Interview with the Vampire (1976) by [[Anne Rice]] ## Contemporary Gothic