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How did Gothic Literature influence the Victorian Era?

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The “old” Gothic of Mary Shelley and Monk Lewis influenced how Victorian prose writers created atmosphere and described landscape, so that, for example, Egdon Heath is virtually another major character in Thomas Hardy’s late Victorian novel The Return of the Native (1878). read more

The Influence of Science and The Theory of Atavism. Scientific discourses on mental science, anthropology, and human behaviour appeared to merge with the fictional texts of Victorian Gothic literature. In 1859, Darwin published Origin of Species. read more

Although the Gothic era occurred far before that of the Victorians, with Gothic architecture thriving during the latter medieval period, it had a large influence on a lot of Victorian culture. read more

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