... of organized religion in the west between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The modernization and urbanization of society drove an overarching secular revival, one that affected the composition of Gothic literature to narratives that 'embodied a commitment to feminism and magical realism.'14 The Coleridge poems present temptation in different respects; for example in Christabel, as with Stoker's novel Dracula ... poem Christabel, both authors pertain to the theme of original sin when exploring their character's temptation; as Yunnan Chen writes, 'The overarching religious...

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