Gothic novel
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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.
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.