The Gothic Novel

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1. Who invented the G.N? What was the title of the first G.N? When was it first published?
The Gothic Novel was invented by Horace Walpole. The title of his first Gothic Novel is The Castle of Otranto, published in the 1764.

 2. Wich basic elements of horror do you remember from the introductory lesson? Write a minimum of ten.
I remember that sounds or screams are very important elements of the horror, the darkness, blood or frightening topics are important aswell, another basic element for the horror could be the place were the story is narred; like a big castle or an abandoned house.

 3. Choose one of the topics on DISCOVERING LITERATURE and write a post.

 Dracula: vampires, perversity and Victorian anxieties
Dracula is an iconic gothic novel of the 19th century that narrates us the story of a vampire, a creature who’s dualty is split in an horrorific bloody being by one side and a glamourous and sexual icon by the other. Stoker, the autor, tries to reflect the immigrations, sexual promiscuites and moral denigrations’s fesars of that era’s socity with his writing.

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