How to Tell When You're Reading a Gothic Novel

[qcrisp]

An amusing look at Gothic literature in graphics, diagrams, etc, from the Guardian:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/int...ures?CMP=fb_gu


One of the graphics comes under the title 'Anyone who isn't a white, middle-class Protestant is frightening', lampooning, of course, this sensibility in the early Gothic novels. There is some possible irony here, of course, since The Guardian (at least to me) seems, with some modifications, a direct descendent of this attitude.

I suppose in the case of The Guardian it would be, 'Anyone who isn't a left-wing, politically correct materialist atheist'. This came to mind not gratuitously, but because of some odd choices in the list, at the bottom, of what The Guardian considers the best works of Gothic literature.

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

EXPLORINGfictions: Wendy Walker | Sexual Stealing (on the Gothic Novel)

Fascinating article on the positions the early gothic writers taken on slavery and also bits about their sexuality.

Wendy Walker also sounds like a fascinating writer of strange fiction.