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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
Doppelganger [RT Doubling]
Hero
Byronic Hero
Hero/Villain
Host
Interpreter
Mad Scientist
Merchant
Missing Mother [RT Motherhood]
Monk
Mysterious visitor
Priest
Wicked Abbess
Henrietta de Bellgrave
Ferdinand
Rodomond
Zoa
Abstraction
Blood
Death
Entrapment
Ill-fated Birth
Rape
Suicide
Torture
Violence
Family(Economical)
Secret Parentage
Indentificatory Talisman
Landscape (use for nature)
Letter/manuscript
Nature (use Landscape)
Secret
Weather
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)
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
Dreams
Memory
Memory of Past Sins
Sleep
Transference
Visions Return to Menu
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
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