... to which the Gothic sensibility informs so many of Shakespeare's plays has only recently been conceded by many mainstream scholars. This is hardly surprising considering Gothic fiction's entrance onto the literary stage in mid eighteenth century England, which was dominated by the Reformation and poised to embrace the Romantic movement. However, Jerrold Hogle points out in his essay "Afterward: ... folklore, fairy tale, and romance. It conjures up beings - mad monks, vampires, and demons - and settings - forbidding cliffs and glowering buildings, stormy seas and the dizzying abyss - that...

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... set Gothic text The Bloody Chamber (1979) by Angela Carter. The discord between religious ideals and sin are paralleled through these texts, and attest to Christianity's influence in the literary Gothic. As Robert Kidd argues, 'Temptation and transgression are the central motifs of the Gothic'4. In religious literature, temptation is often seen as the ultimate transgression of faith, the ... the 'punishment for sexual knowledge and the violation of the restricted Victorian female roles39' as suggested by critic Michael Delahoyde. This is symbolised in the killings of the vampirised fema...

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The literary creed of Aestheticism was much in fashion at the times of Oscar Wilde and he fully embraced its philosophy of the central importance of art in life. The ... in Ellman 310) and "the search of beauty being the real secret of life".(Wilde 57) The novel underscores its disapproval of aestheticism which negatively impacts the main characters. "The life of mere sensation is uncovered anarchic and self-destructive[ ]Life cannot be lived on such terms."(Ellman 315) Each of the three primary ... characters is an aesthete and meets some form of terrible personal doom. Basil Hallward's ae...

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The literary creed of Aestheticism was much in fashion at the times of Oscar Wilde and he fully embraced its philosophy of the central importance of art in life. The ... in Ellman 310) and "the search of beauty being the real secret of life".(Wilde 57) The novel underscores its disapproval of aestheticism which negatively impacts the main characters. "The life of mere sensation is uncovered anarchic and self-destructive[ ]Life cannot be lived on such terms."(Ellman 315) Each of the three primary ... characters is an aesthete and meets some form of terrible personal doom. Basil Hallward's ae...

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... merely amplifies his alienation and his need to establish his own significance. Stoker and Rice have, in their novels, taken on specific points of view to portray their characters and events. Each has a different literary effect on the audience, and heavily influences their portrayal of vampirism, in way of the old' and new' styles. Stoker had adopted the polyphonic voice technique, detaching ... world and relations, in favour of recovering an earlier organic model- (Kilgour, 11). The moral and emotional ambiguity and search for meaning that more strongly characterise the modern Gothic ...

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