Gothic Literature

Gothic Literature

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Gothic Literature-The origins of Gothic literature can be traced to various historical, cultural, and artistic precedents. Figures found in ancient folklore, such as the Demon Lover, the Cannibal Bridegroom, the Devil, and assorted demons, later populated the pages of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic novels and dramas.

Romanticism- Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic," although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.

1. Transcendentalism- It was an American literary, political and philosophical during the nineteenth century centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson.

This is a picture a frankenstein it was a popular book it is also an example of a Gothic Literature

This a picture of Ralph Waldo Emerson it was said that Transcendentalism centered around him.

This is an example of romanticism he is thinking when he is looking off into the big waves of the ocean.

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