Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Gothic Research - The Explained Supernatural

-It is a genre of the gothic in which the laws of everyday life stay intact and permit an explanation or even dismissal of the allegedly supernatural phenomena

'In Ann Radcliffe's books she questions both the reader and the character wheather the weird phenomena is happening because of the laws of nature or because of the same supernatural intervention - at the end of her novels she always give a normal explanation for what seemed supernatural'

-Ann Radcliffe uses is in her novel The Mysteries of Udolpho - This book is also mentioned in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.

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