Literatura II/1 Cuatrimestre/Tema 3 & 4

A poetic form that conveys the poet's mediation on loss and death. The most celebrated poem by Thomas Gray is an example of this poetic mode - ends with an "epitaph" dedicated to "a youth to fortune and to fame unknown".

A literary genre that idealised medieval culture and architecture in opposition to neo-classical form and design; 'terror', 'horror' and 'supernatural' are key words to characterise this genre.

The feeling that Gothic novelist aspired to produce in their readers. According to Edmund Burke, this feeling was an expression of "the sublime".

The title of a famous ode written by Thomas Gray which refers to a famous English college.

The title of a Gothic romance by Horace Walpole set in medieval (13th century) Italy.

A group of eighteenth century poets who, because of their imagery and themes, can be related to the Gothic genre in fiction.

A group of poets that turned from neoclassical aesthetics and suggested a new pre-romantic sensibility towards the transitory nature of human life, decadence and death.

The title of an 18th century poem that moves away from neoclassical ideals and, in doing so, introduces a new emphasis of feeling and an imagery that could be considered Gothic.

The title of an 18th century poem whose historical significance resides in introducing a pre-Romantic sensitivity, with tone and themes differing considerably from those dominating the poetry of the previous century.

Any of the seventeenth-century English public figures mentioned in Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, the counterparts of the humble people of the village.

Any of the female writers associated with the Gothic (second half of the 18th century, first half of the 18th century, first half of the 19th century), except Mary Shelley.

a particular cultural phenomenon of the 18th century and a kind of literature. Its background was a moral philosophy that developed againgts reason and unemotional will. It claimed an innate feeling of sympathy for others and connoted an intense emotional responsiveness to beauty and sublimity regarding nature and art.

The spatial setting of a poem by Thomas Gray that prefigures aspects of Romanticism and has therefore a great historical relevance.

the cause for the activation of muscles which, according to Luigi Galvani, was generated by an electrical fluid carried to the muscles by the nerves; this scientific theory influenced Mary Shelley and the composition of her famous novel.

the daring Greek Titan compared by Mary Shelley to Victor Frankenstein in the full title of her novel.

Combination of direct speech and indirect speech: consciousness or point of view of character but through a third person form.

a term coined by the scholar Stuart Curran, referring to a gendered voice in the poem that deviated from the dominant Romantic perspective in poetry.

the first book, by an eighteenth-century female poet and novelist, which foreshadowed the Romantic revival of the sonnet as a valid poetic form in English literature.

an eighteenth-century female novelist, often underrated, whose style has been described as honest and satirical, and whose main subject has been declared to be "embarrassment".