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Bifurcated Ideology Character Traits   Eighteenth Century
Dislocation Character Types   British Empire
Doubling Character List   Emotions
Eerie Effects of Evil   Madness
Foreshadowing Family   Rationality
Interpolated Narratives Historical Context   Society
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Supernatural
Workings of the Mind

Gothic Literary Techniques

Bifurcated ideology
Dislocation
Doubling [RT Doppelganger]
Eerie
Foreshadowing
  Creepy Sounds
Interpolated narratives
Intertextuality
Plot Devices
  Ineffable
  Providence
  Revealed Genealogies
  Uncanny

Gothic Subjects

Character Traits:

Beauty
Catholic
Chivalry [RT Romantic Paradigm]
Otherness [RT Xenophobia]
  African
  Banyan
  Banditti
  Deformity
  Gypsy
  Infidel (use for Pagan)
  Moor
  Pagan (use Infidel)
Purity
Queer
Virginity

Character Types:

Doppelganger [RT Doubling]
Hero
   Byronic Hero
  Hero/Villain
Host
Interpreter
Mad Scientist
Merchant
Missing Mother [RT Motherhood]
Monk
Mysterious visitor
Priest
Wicked Abbess

Characters List:

Henrietta de Bellgrave
Ferdinand
Rodomond
Zoa

Effects of Evil:

Abstraction
Blood
Death
Entrapment
Ill-fated Birth
Rape
Suicide
Torture
Violence

Family [RT Domesticity]:

Family(Economical)
Secret Parentage

Historical Context:

French Revolution
Crusades

Motifs:

Indentificatory Talisman
Landscape (use for nature)
Letter/manuscript
 Nature (use Landscape)
Secret
Weather

Settings:

Britain
Castles
  Dungeon
 Cloister (use Monastery)
 Convent (use Monastery)
Home [RT Family, Domesticity]
India
  Bombay
Monastery (use for cloister or convent)[RT Religion]
Ruins
Secret passage
Urban Landscapes
  City
  Wasteland(urban)

Supernatural:

Hauntings
  Apparition (use for phantom/phantasm/spectre/ghosts)
  Ghosts (use Apparition)
  Phantom or Phantasm (use Apparition)
  Spectre (use Apparition)
Magic
  Enchantment
  Occultism
  Priestcraft[RT Religion]
  Sorcery
Vampirism

Workings of the Mind:

Dreams
Memory
  Memory of Past Sins
Sleep
Transference
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Gothic Themes

Eighteenth Century
  British Empire
  Fin de siècle (use for Turn of Century)
  Imperialism/Colonialism
  National Origins
   English Nationalism [RT Xenophobia]

Emotions
  Distress
  Fear
  Love
  Melancholy
  Paranoia/Hysteria

Madness

Rationality

Society

  Boundaries
    Transgression
  Class conflict
  Domesticity
   Motherhood
  Genealogy
  Misogyny
  Religion
    Anti-Catholic
    Forced vows
    Religious oppression
  Romance Paradigm
  Sexuality
    Androgyny
    Female sexuality
  Xenophobia [RT Otherness]
   Atavism
    Ethnicity
    Interracial Marriage
    Othering
    Race

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