The literature of terror and horror continues to fascinate readers
both casual and more critical, and it has long been recognised as
an international, not merely British, phenomenon. This study
provides an in-depth and text-based analysis of Gothic fiction in
France and Germany from earlier literary traditions, through the
influence of the English Gothic novel, to an extraordinary
popularity and dominance by the end of the eighteenth century. It
examines how some of the motifs most closely associated with the
Gothic - secret societies, the supernatural and suspense, among
others - are the product of an uncertain age, and how the use of
those motifs differed not just across languages and borders, which
in fact the Gothic often crossed with ease, but according to the
views, concerns and sometimes insecurities of individual authors.
What emerges is a complex genre more diverse than any 'list of
Gothic ingredients' would have us believe. Many of the notions and
devices explored by the French and German Gothic then continue to
intrigue, disturb and unsettle today.
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