Gothic Context

Gothic Context

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories [1979]
1. ‘The Snow Child’ is a retelling of the Brothers Grimm tale ‘Snow Drop’
2. The innocent female - damsel in distress - in traditional European Gothic literature
3. ‘The Lady of The House of Love’ was used to create a music video to the song ‘Hope Your Dreams Come True’ [1992] by the punk band Daisy Chainsaw
4. Carter was part of the Second Wave of feminism during the 1960s and 1970s
5. Carter’s collection of short stories was put together in 1979, her stories were originally published individually some in magazines
  1. ‘The Company of Wolves’ was published in 'Bananas'
  2. ‘The Courtship of Mr Lyon’ was published in Vogue
  3. 'The Snow child' was originally broadcast on BBC4
  4. They were adapted before publication in the athology
Beloved [1987]
1. Until the Fugitive Slave Act 1793 and then 1850 slaves could become emancipated if when escaping they were able to cross the Ohio River
  1. Fugitive Slave Act 1793 made it the state’s responsibility to capture escaped slaves due to the property law at the time
  2. Fugitive Slave Act 1850 made fugitive slaves a federal matter - not just state - and it became a legal offence to not pursue and capture an escaped slave in any state
2. Mr Dolphus Raymond in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ and his comments on the struggles of mixed race families
3. Slavery was officially abolished in America in December 1865
4. Toni Morrison was first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature - 1993 for ‘Beloved’
5. Sethe’s story is based on that of Margaret Garner, an ex-slave who killed her own daughter so that she did not enter slavery. Escaping slavery in January 1856, she crossed the Ohio River to Cincinnati before being found by previous her slave owners
General
1. ‘The Castle of Otranto’ [1764], considered the original gothic novel, written by Horace Walpole who was a member of Parliament for King’s Lynn at the time of writing
2. ‘The Shadow of The Wind’ [2001] Carlos Ruiz Záfon
3. Terror and Horror were defined by Ann Radcliffe
4. ‘The Monk’ [1796] Matthew Lewis - parade of ‘ghosts, demons and sexually inflamed monks, it has a final guest appearance by Satan himself’ -John Mullan
5. ‘Northanger Abbey’ [1817], first novel written by Austen, although it was published after her death, and was a satire of the gothic genre
6. Darwin published his theory on ‘The Origin of Species’ in 1859, forcing people to recognise that if true the Creation Story in the Bible could not be
7. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ [1892] Charlotte Perkins-Gilman - themes of madness and the dominance of males
8. The year that Frankenstein was written [1816] was called ‘the year without a summer’ due to the eruption of Mount Tambora

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