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- Title
Gothic Gothicism Norse Terror in the Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries.
- Authors
Rix, Robert W.
- Abstract
Antiquarian efforts to revive Old Norse poetry brought about an interest in Germanic superstition that could be exploited by literary writers. This article examines a subspecies of terror writing which took inspiration from Norse literature. Compared to the Catholic settings of many Gothic novels, Norse-inflected writing provided an alternative. It is a little known fact that the Old Norse religion and literature was used as a prism through which Britain's ethnically Gothic past could be viewed and negotiated. The article discusses some examples of how the fashion for thrills was combined with a national project to recover a sense of ancestral heroism.
- Subjects
ENGLISH literature -- Old Norse influences; TERROR in literature; GOTHIC fiction (Literary genre); SUPERSTITION in literature; OLD Norse poetry
- Publication
Gothic Studies, 2011, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1362-7937
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.7227/GS.13.1.2