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A European Romantic, pseudo-medieval literary genre that took shape in England between 1790 and 1830. It was "invented" by Horace Walpole, whose Castle of Otranto (1765) became the epitome of this genre.

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-A European [[Romanticism|Romantic]], pseudo-medieval literary genre that took shape in England between 1790 and 1830. It was "invented" by [[Horace Walpole]], whose ''Castle of Otranto'' (1765) became the epitome of this genre. "The gothic has been associated with with a rebellion against a constraining neoclassical aesthetic ideal of order and unity" (Kilgour).
+A European [[Romanticism|Romantic]], pseudo-medieval literary genre that took shape in England between 1790 and 1830. It was "invented" by [[Horace Walpole]], whose ''Castle of Otranto'' (1765) became the epitome of this genre.
-== Sources ==
-* Kilgour, Maggie: ''The Rise of the Gothic Novel'', London: Routledge, 1995.
-* http://cai.ucdavis.edu/waters-sites/gothicnovel/155breport.html
-* http://www.virtualsalt.com/gothic.htm
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