Part one of term paper
which dominated English literature from its conception in 1764 with the publication of The Castle of Ortanto by Horace Walpole has been continually criticized by numerous critics for its sensationalism, melodramatic qualities, and its play on the supernatural. The genre drew many of its intense images from the graveyard poets Gray and Thomps ...

Part two of term paper
... books. Gothic literature as a movement was a disappointment to the idealistic romantic poets for the sentimental character idealized by Ann Radcliffe could not transcend into reality. Although influenced many of the emerging genres, the Gothic ceased in approximately 1820 with the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. had come full circle, from rebellion to the Age of Reason's order, to its encompassing and incorporation of Reason as derived from terror. The influence of is felt today ...