![]() If you want to re-add it, I won't delete it again, even if it's not on the requisite number of people's "Gothic" shelves. "Gothic" can be a relatively subjective term, not as cut-and-dried and easy to define as such even for people who know literature and many other people are relatively clueless about what it is (as some of their list additions demonstrate!) I don't know the list creator, Rachel but I'm guessing she set up that criteria as a way of bringing in an objective yardstick, and replacing idiosyncratic individual judgement with the collective perspective of many readers (in the hope that the latter would be more likely to be accurate).Īll of that said, I can see Gothic elements in Dracula, though I personally usually associate "Gothic" with something set strictly in or around one particular sinister building. (I don't know how large that number has to be.) The more people who have a "Gothic" shelf (I don't myself) and list a particular book on it, the more likely it is that Goodreads will list "Gothic" as one of the book's genres. ![]() On the book records, where a list of "Genres" is supplied, the Goodreads program apparently lists every customized shelf name (like "Gothic," "Fiction," "Horror," etc.) that a certain number of people have all shelved the book as. The fiction work by Brontë sisters is considered by the critics as one of the finest examples of the Female Gothic literature. Some very simple, generic shelf names, like Gothic, are used by a LOT of people, even though they don't coordinate with each other. tags: gothic-literature 5 likes Like Joshua had always been able to get away with thingsthings for which he should never have been forgiven. But many people go on to create customized shelves of their own, sometimes by genre (including "Gothic"). So You Want to Read English Gothic Literature: Heres Where to Start Windswept moors, crumbling towers, and maybe a ghost or two: It is English Gothic. When you join Goodreads, the program automatically sets your bookshelves up with three basic shelves (read, currently reading, and to read). Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality versus the irrational, puritanism, guilt, the uncanny ( das unheimliche ), ab-humans, ghosts, and monsters. Jon, good question! There is but one person can't do it alone. The Significance of Female Identity within Gothic Literature. American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction. Jon wrote: "If the main consideration for a book's inclusion is it having the genre listing of Gothic on its book page, is there a way to make such a thing happen?"
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