![]() ![]() ![]() The first Gothic Novel-according to most scholars-is Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, written in 1764. The genre has led to the rise of pulp magazines in the early twentieth century, the modern horror genre, and most famously, the Southern Gothic-fiction that contains elements of the gothic, taking place in the American South. Common themes and motifs of the Gothic include power, confinement, and isolation. This genre is dark, eerie, and mysterious, often containing elements of terror, horror, and the macabre and the bizarre. Usually the setting consists of a castle or manor in an isolated location, away from any city or civilization. The Gothic Novel is thought to have emerged in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, inspired by the architectural style of the same name. ![]()
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