![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() François Rabelais first applied the term to literature in the sixteenth century, meaning anything that failed to reflect Classical ideals and scholarship, and which was therefore vulgar. These were separated by a terrible period of ignorance and brutality – the Dark and Middle Ages – brought about by the Goths, the Germanic tribes that had brought down the Roman Empire. To European Humanist intellectuals, there were two epochs of cultural excellence in human history: the Classical and their own. Stephen Carver compares the works of the two giants of English Gothic literature, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis.ĭuring the Renaissance, ‘gothic’ was a label for all things barbarous. ‘It was a question of suspense versus horror’. ![]()
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