ruttkay 1 Intro folk ballads "The Deamon Lover"; E.Burke on the sublime; Collins: "Ode to Fear" 2 Gothic genealogies - Otranto 3 G sensibility - Ann Radcliffe: The Romance of the Forest; Ch. Smith: "To Melancholy" (H.More: "Sensibility") 4 Parody of the G - Jane Austen: Nortanger Abbey 5 G and romantic/1 WW: "Hart-Leap Well"; Bürger: "The Wild Huntsman" ("Der Wilde Jager"); Colergidge: Christabel 6 /2 Keats: "La Belle Dame sans Merci"; Shelley: "The Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery", Julian and Maddalo 7 G,irony, despair - Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto IV.), the 'Byronic Hero'; Peacock: Nightmarre Abbey (Ch. 10-12) 8 Mary Shelley: "Frankeinstein" 9 E.Bronte: "Wuthering Heights" 10 The G and the exotic - Beckford: "Vathek"; _De Quincey_: "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" [My presentation!] [Oxford/Norton passages] 11 G sexualities - Poe: "Ligea"; Ch.Rossetti: Goblin Market 12 Gothic ae.ism - Wilde: "The Picture of Dorian Gray" 13 Modern science and the G psyche - R.L.Stevenson: The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde 14 conclusions Regular participation; presentation; term essay of 6-8 pages. NEW PLAN 10 Quincey, Poe 11 Rosetti, Wilde - DEADLINE4PAPERS! 12 Jekyll, Hyde * * * Coleridge: "The willing suspension of disbelief." The Antiquarianism of Walpole. A presentation of Strawberry Hill. The Convent and the Castle (dominated by authorities) are connected by the Labirinth, where young people are lost. A Rite of Passage. Piranese's engravings. * Walpole is very much a son. His Strawberry Hill is a countercreation to the classical family mansion. He's interested in familial matters. His other novel: "The Mysterious Mother". The birthday of the son who gets killed on his day of marriage. This is how the novel kicks off. The Helmet of anancestor kills the son. Who are the other father figures? Manfred: typical gothic villain. To maintain the line by way of a heir. But Conrad is killed. He becomes intterested in Conrad's groom, Isabella. Wants to marry her, despite he's already got a son. Father Jerome doesn't like this. [>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>] About incest: "We have all the post-Feudian tools to make sense of this." Manfred would like to become his own heir. Manfred: a passionate and histerycal person. Frederick, the father of Isabell. Appears towards the end of the novel. He tells the short story of why the curse fall on Manfred's family. A miniature legend. He comes back justified by supernatural powers. Seems to be the rightful posessor. However, this does not happen. He's wounded by mistake by Theodore. That makes a conflict b/w Theodore and Isabelle. He wants to marry Mathilda. Another incest. The deal: they exchange daughters. Another supernatural warning is necessary to frighten him away from the pact. He is still superior to Manfred. Alfonso the Good - the real source of mystery. Poisoned by his servant who was the ancestor of Manfred. The grandfather of Alfonso. Theodore - "Shall I confess to you.. thought myself in a gothic castle. .. what i intended to say ... completed in less than two months." The Helmet. We see mostly the armor of Alfonso. Interesting surfaces without substance. Masks within a mask. THE\END > > > Get StrawHill catalog! Walpole has no sense of beautiful or sublime, but only the odd. The grotesque, the ridiculous will be featured in gothic later on as well. Ch. 8-11 Radcliffe ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- She's an important author but did not become a classic. On the border of pop and elit culture. Late 18. century. Women writer. The gothic and the family is connected. Radcliffe wrote as a woman to women about women. She built up her image as a public figure as a woman author. In the 17. century it is more easy to be a woman writer. In the 18. century it is more difficult. The theory of the public/private connected with male/female values. However, she became a very esteemed author at the end. Gothic writers become figures of gothic tales in the minds of their readers. Rousseau. Emil and Sophie: novels of development. Books of conduct. How the young (women) should be educated? This is one of the discourses in which Radcliffe works. Gives the moral after certain situations. Always explains the supernatural and brings back her heroines in safety. Adeline and Mathilda. Adeline: forest, abbey: labirinths. There's no way out. Had a tyrannical father, knew her for a short time. Mother died early. Put into a convent. Wants to escape. Outside, she's forced into a marriage. Escapes. How did you like the novel? Unlike at Walpole, Nature is important and there's nature symbolism is in work. The agitated mind is reflected in the first passage in the storm. She's a stronger charater than Mathilda. Does not obey the will of her parents and authoritites. Infallable moral sense. Adeline, like Isabella, she escapes. The power of love helps to resist. When she reads a mauscipt she finds the wind is coming and she hears her name repeated, ... this is the voice of the servant. Dissappointing. However, her dreams are no described. Her father has written the manuscipt. LAter the corpse of her fatehre comes to tht ecirfae. The marquis shot her father whoo was the marquis before. Adeline did not know her real father. REcurrent figures from Otranto. A genre that is so much fascinate d with origins. Theodore, the lover (againe). Typical young hero, who saves the ladies' life, againe called Theodore. What knd of gothic villain is the marquis? Made a contract with the nobleman, another villain (the weak one). The noblemandõemeds omn the . The moral remarks are there. Page 118. "Discovering vice in those we love..." Motive of incest and murder. Petronus Arbitrer, but howmn otherr Not anything but human could com efrom this communation. Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber. Artifice and art objects are related to the theme of seduction. Lures one to destruction. Two songs in that passage: "raise attention to extasy." Another look at the heroine. More than just a shadow, a weak creature in the story. What does she do in the story? She is always locked up, emprisoned. When she encounters dangers, she prays. There is a notion of Roussoistic belief, the merciful god and a faith in the universe as a benevolent being. A firm belief, although not greatly detailed. Faints and swoons all the time. That's the stock response. Exhibiting the physical signs of horror. Heart pulpitating, breath is short. Her body becomes a sign system. Fainting is a sort of escape for her! No one hurts her when she faints. Also in daydreams and reveries and dreams there is a kind of inner space for her. However we don't always know her thoughts. Sometimes she is a cypher. She is reading, and we see her bodily reactions. The manuscript contains alien material. Intertextuality. She stumbles on the manuscript at a night expedition in the abbey. There is a special technique of presenting the manuscipt. The suspension is growing. She is not reading this text continuosly. She reads just fragments. Then the next day happens and the fragment is reinterpreted by the day's events. She doesn't finish the text but gives it away. They find out about the castle in the manuscipt and go on to find the real castle. There are brakes in the paragraphs, she cannot decipher the letters. Moreover, the manuscript text itself is in fragment form: the notes of a dying man. The text has no beginning. Shakespearean allusions abound in the text. Miranda as Madeline, the enchanted forest, mottos from Shakespeare (how the text creates its own tradition), Macbeth's prophetic dreams. Macbeth in general is a continous source of gothic inspiration. These novels were commonly published in three volumes. Jane Austen and the sort. Literature and life permeate each other. "And unaccountable dread." The mirror image of the reader's activity. What do you think about the interaction between the two texts? There might be a hidden subtext of sexuality: the cavity as the castle, and blood can be taken for sexuality. The women's place in society: constant imprisonment, and finally ends up in a middle-class burgousie marriage. Maybe another prison? Direct speech:, the thoughts of the character can be seen by the smae Panopticon: Jeremy Bentham: Star prison: ... . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2004.11.16 Peacock: Nightmare Abbey Romantic ridicule. Mr Cyphress ~ Byron. Byron was a friend of Peacock. Mr Plosky ~ Coleridge. A lover of shadows, not wisdom. Mr Skip* ~ Love triangle like the novel. JF Newton ~ Coleridge - "I have seen too many ghosts in my life to believe in them." _Ye Byronic Heroe_ Mr. Scythrop - closed up in a tower. Mr Cypress - just about to leave the country. Needs isolation from society. Hubris. Rejecting the moral values of the society. Feeling superior. Ubermensch image. Untold sin from the past. Bad conscious. Trying to forget and escape. Prototype: Satan as the defiant one, proud even in his downfall. Byron: Childe Harold: (Byron never wrote such a good poem - Harold Bloom) "The Heart is diseased of its own Beauty." Parody: "The soul is its own monument." Coleridge: Metafisick --- end of Frankeinstein Wuthering Heights THE|END 2004.11.24 The monster teaches himself - which means that he has great intellectual abilities. Reads workds that Shelley also studied. The conclusions they draw are the same. "Plutarch" - high thoughts, to love and admire the people of lost ages. To rise above the rest. The same in Jane Eyre. Lady Shelley wasn't allowed to goto school, so she self-educated herself. "Werther" - pain and sentimentalism and sensibility. The suffering hero. "Memoirs of the author of the Rights of Women". "Paradise Lost" - discovers himself in the role of Adam and the role of Satan. Frank (the monster and the doctor as well) as a byronic hero. The modern Prometheus. Shelley: the difference b/w Satan and Prometheus: the latter is better as he is not evil and does not strive for revenge. The Monster cannot be either Adam or Satan, unfortunately. In a way that is the central tragedy of the whole novel. The BIRTH experience - an allegory. Lady Shelley had 2 children already, 1 dead, 1 some months old. And of course her mother died when she was born. Rejection and pain and glory. The tragedy of giving birth. What if she won't want the child. Preface: she wanted to write a ghost story, but she had this vision about the moment when the creature STIRS. Yellow eyes, moving lungs. Shelley himself fainted when she heard the story. Birth picture: something unholy and strange. The monster can be a The Work. Creation out of other texts. Also: teaching himself from other texts. That is the terrifying in the work. Without the help of society it can educate itself. The dangerous self-taught creature, with time he could educate himself. Or of course the machines. END|OF|FRANK Wuthering Heights Father: poverty to priesthood. Mother: merchant to lower-class Yorkshire families. A harsh dissapointment? A whole lot of children. Loving. Having beared 6 children mother died young. Sister name Elisabeth Bromwell - a fostermother. A strict and well-educated woman. She was a fucking bastard. Emily was very reserved, but strong in his private intentions. Liked the mother most. Invented stories. Father and mother both celtic origin. Different accent than the environment. A gothic story in England. THE|END _James Hogh: Confessions of a Justified Sinner_ early XIX.centuries The main character is an extreme Calvinist. Belief of determination: election. There are people damned from the start. _De Quincey: Palimpsest_ the mind as a series of texts on each other THE|END ruttkayveron@freemail.hu 2004.12.07 _Rosetti - Goblin Market_ fantasy C.S.Lewis - "Chronicles of Naria" bio Polidori connection William Micheal Rosetti early age writing poems, publishing the Germ. As: Ellen Alleyne. "Goblin Market and Other Poems". 1862. Almost all her poems are deeply religious, Oxford (High Church Anglican) movement stuff, extreme conservative. "A Peep at the Goblin", dedicated to her sister, Maria subhuman _Poe - Ligeia_ De Quincey connection Orienting himself from British tradition. A kind of autobiography, but sublimated. Not like TDQ, documentary. Heine ballad on the Syrens re-appearing on the banks of the Rhyne. Ligeia was a Syren, offered knowledge to (?her father?). THE|END Gothick Origins & Innovations ed.by Allan Lloyd Smith & Victor Sage (Costerus New Series 91) Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA, Podopi, 1994. THE|END