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Going Gothic Read, Watch, Play (and Write) Rachel Franks @cfwriter Horror at the Metcalfe: 12 March 2014

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This was presented at Horror at the Metcalfe 12 March 2014, co-organised by the NSW Readers Advisory Working Group

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Page 1: Going Gothic by Rachel Franks

Going GothicRead, Watch, Play (and Write)

Rachel Franks @cfwriter

Horror at the Metcalfe: 12 March 2014

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. . . spectres, monsters,

demons, corpses, skeletons,

evil aristocrats, monks and

nuns, fainting heroines and

bandits populate . . .

scientists, fathers, husbands,

madmen, criminals and the

monstrous double . . .

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Character

The very good and the very

bad

The facilitation of extreme

emotions

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Language

Classic and modern

Philosophical and religious

debates

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Setting

Bleak rural and metropolitan

places

The weather is never very

good

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Story

The idea of the secret

The battle between good and

evil

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Read

Watch

Play

(and Write)

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The English Beginnings

Horace WalpoleThe Castle of Otranto (1764)

Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (1847) and Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights (1847)

Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

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The American Tradition

Charles Brockden BrownWieland (1798)

Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall of the House of Usher (1839)

Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlett Letter (1850)

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Some Modern Examples

Dean Koontz Almost anything will do. . .

Anne Rice The Vampire Chronicles (1976-2003)

Susan Hill The Woman in Black (1983)

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Watch

Play

(and Write)

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Nosferatu (1922)

Rebecca (1940)

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

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Watch

Play

(and Write)

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Games

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Read

Watch

Play

(and Write)

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Gothic Horror

Gothic Romanticism

Classic Gothic

Modern Gothic

Southern Gothic

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Thank you.

Questions?

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