Gothic Literature contains both horror and romance.
Is thought to have been first created by the English author Horace Walpole in 1764 in the novel the Castle of Oranto.
Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets, and hereditary curses.
there is usualy castles, ruined buildings, dungeons, underground passages, spooky basements or attics, winding stairs, darkness, flikering candles, extrem landscapes, curses, magic, vilians
Romanticism
was thought to have started with wordsworthe and coleridge's Lyrical Ballads in 1798.
some english romantic poets are byron, shelly, robert burns, keats, robert southey, and william cowper.
a movement in the literature of vertually every country from 1750 to 1870, characterized by reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach, freedom of thought and expression, and an idealization of nature
They dealt with nature, romance, lure of the exotic, and the supernatural
Johann wolfgang Goethe and the novel the sorrows of young werther i 1774
E.T.A. Hoffmann's der sandmann(the sandman) in 1817.
Transcendentalism
had to deal with spiritral beliefs.
began with Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature in 1836
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