Treatments of Time and Space in the Early Gothic and Dark Romanticism

Matos, Nelson Angel

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Treatments of Time and Space in the Early Gothic and Dark Romanticism

Matos, Nelson Angel

Abstract

This thesis argues that while the Early Gothic, represented by Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian, is concerned with irrational, tyrannical forces of the past being defeated by rational heroes of the present, Dark Romanticism, represented by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, portrays the fallibility of reason in modernity. This thesis will investigate the way the Gothic novel evolves in its representation of time, space, and place.