![]() ![]() If you want to re-add it, I won't delete it again, even if it's not on the requisite number of people's "Gothic" shelves. Windswept moors, crumbling towers, and maybe a ghost or two: It is English Gothic. ![]() ![]() Characters grappling with mental illness or spiritual angst are often. The aesthetics of the book have shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture. "Gothic" can be a relatively subjective term, not as cut-and-dried and easy to define as such even for people who know literature and many other people are relatively clueless about what it is (as some of their list additions demonstrate!) I don't know the list creator, Rachel but I'm guessing she set up that criteria as a way of bringing in an objective yardstick, and replacing idiosyncratic individual judgement with the collective perspective of many readers (in the hope that the latter would be more likely to be accurate).Īll of that said, I can see Gothic elements in Dracula, though I personally usually associate "Gothic" with something set strictly in or around one particular sinister building. So You Want to Read English Gothic Literature: Heres Where to Start Penguin Random House Windswept moors, crumbling towers, and maybe a ghost or two: It is English Gothic. So You Want to Read English Gothic Literature: Here's Where to Start Penguin Random House Windswept moors, crumbling towers, and maybe a ghost or two: It is English Gothic. The Castle of Otranto (1764) is regarded as the first Gothic novel. Horace Walpole is the novelist credited with the invention of Gothic genre. These novels recreate the atmosphere of medieval times and take us into a world of tragedy, fear and horrifying events. (I don't know how large that number has to be.) The more people who have a "Gothic" shelf (I don't myself) and list a particular book on it, the more likely it is that Goodreads will list "Gothic" as one of the book's genres. The mysterious world of Gothic novels is created with the help of elements such as a medieval setting, tyrants, villains, damsels, omens, curses, etc. On the book records, where a list of "Genres" is supplied, the Goodreads program apparently lists every customized shelf name (like "Gothic," "Fiction," "Horror," etc.) that a certain number of people have all shelved the book as. Some very simple, generic shelf names, like Gothic, are used by a LOT of people, even though they don't coordinate with each other. But many people go on to create customized shelves of their own, sometimes by genre (including "Gothic"). 1961 Edgar Allan Poe was a longstanding inspiration for Roger Corman, who directed such gothic classics as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death. When you join Goodreads, the program automatically sets your bookshelves up with three basic shelves (read, currently reading, and to read). Jon, good question! There is but one person can't do it alone. Jon wrote: "If the main consideration for a book's inclusion is it having the genre listing of Gothic on its book page, is there a way to make such a thing happen?" ![]()
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