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A term used mainly in literary criticism to describe a complex of motifs, venues and paranoia-inducing utterances whose main burden – that the Western world is under deadly attack from outside its borders – is sometimes narrated in nonfantastic terms, sometimes in terms expressive of Fantastika 's not always temperate concern with who rules the ...
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Dec 24, 2012 · Brantlinger identifies the three principal themes of imperial Gothic as an individual regression, or what was called “going native;” an invasion of civilization by the forces of barbarism or demonism; and the diminution of opportunities for adventure and heroism in the modern world.
The term, ‘imperial Gothic’ refers to the late 19 th century fiction set within the British Empire. Within imperial Gothic fiction, it employs or adapts elements drawn from gothic novels.
In Gothic, Fred Botting writes that at “the end of the nineteenth century familiar Gothic figures—the double and the vampire— reemerged in new shapes, with a different intensity and anxious investment as objects of terror.”1 They reemerged in...
The three principal themes of imperial Gothic are individual regression or going native; an invasion of civilization by the forces of barbarism or demonism; and the diminution of opportunities for adventure and heroism in the modern world.
THE IMPERIAL GOTHIC: The British novel, 1880-1914. Main Characteristics of the Imperial Gothic: -- Blends Adventure with Gothic elements. -- Combines a seemingly scientific and progressive, often Darwinian ideology of imperialism with an antithetical interest in the occult.
Sep 16, 2014 · Imperial Gothic is the first sustained and serious study of British colonial church architecture since Basil Clarke’s Anglican Cathedrals Outside the British Isles (1958). As such it breaks new gro...
