English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1445 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Gothic in Victorian Fiction
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The idea
The Gothic returned at the century's end: Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde, of eighteen eighty-six; Wilde's Dorian Gray; and Bram Stoker's Dracula, of eighteen ninety-seven, which opens with the solicitor Jonathan Harker visiting a Transylvanian count. Earlier, the Brontës drew on Gothic mystery.
In practice
Doubles, portraits, vampires.
Where people slip
Late Gothic fears the hidden self.
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