Important Elements in Gothic Literature The gothic genre, as with all genres, is made up of many elements and concepts resulting in a massively broad and varied spectrum; including the supernatural, the sublime and horror to name but a few of the more common and generally fundamental ones. Some concepts may be clearly overt, and others will be more discreetly manipulated, but nevertheless a gothic text will more often than not include many of these …showed first 75 words of 1167 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1167 total…likely that Shakespeare's Hamlet, Marlowe's Faustus and plays like them would possibly now not be studied throughout educational institutions everywhere. Bibliography *<Tab/>Bloom, C. (ed) Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, 1998. Macmillan. *<Tab/>Hogle, J.E. (ed) the Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction, 2003. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. *<Tab/>Kilgour, M. The Rise of the Gothic Novel, 1997. Routledge: London.