Gothic cycles, images and traumatic histories in the castle of Otranto, atonement, the bad ∞ end ∞ night series and ingress

• Main Author: Chan, Yi Shao
• Other Authors: Samara Anne Cahill
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65681
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While the gothic is a recognizable and highly conventional literary mode identified with tropes such as decrepit architecture, supernatural occurrences, and a claustrophobic atmosphere, these are merely superficial markers, with the deeper concern being cultural anxiety about the infiltration of the...