First Wave of Gothic (1760-1830)
- Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
- Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian
- Matthew Lewis - The Monk
Second Wave of Gothic
- Bram Stoker - Dracula
- Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Motifs
- Gothic Castle
- Persecuted Maiden
- The Ghost
- The Vampire
- Monsters
- The Double
Mood
The central mood of the Gothic is fear which always has something to do with the past, the "revenant", the "what comes back".
Beyond The Mainstream
The Gothic is conventionally identified as a specific subgenre of literature, it is not wholly within the 'mainstream'.
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