Sci-Fi/Fantasy Assignment Week 6

Assignment:

Choose one of the above eras or topics, and do some research. Write a definition or overview of the era (depending on whether you choose one of the periods or one of the topics below). Then list some important authors of the period (2-6 will do) with at least one important story or novel written by each.

If these stories are available in their entirety online (as for example, at Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org) or The Literature Network (www.online-literature.com) please list the web site link for the story as well.

The assignment, of course, should be in your own words, though you may quote UP TO one entire paragraph from a given story or novel, if proper credit is given. See http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ and
http://128.210.82.236/workshops/hypertext/apa/print/sources/intext.html).





Selected authors and novels or stories:

Zittaw Press
Purveyors of the Trade Gothic - Website for different novels or short stories
URL: http://members.aol.com/iamudolpho/basic.html


1) Bonhote, Elizabeth; edited by Curt Herr
BUNGAY CASTLE (1796)


2) Ireland, H William; edited by Jeffrey Kahan
THE ABBESS (1799)


3) Anonymous; Edited by Franz J. Potter
ROMANCES AND GOTHIC TALES (1801)


4) Mrs. Carver; edited by Curt Herr
THE HORRORS OF OAKENDALE ABBEY (1797)

5) RAYLAND HALL; OR,
THE REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF ORLANDO SOMERVILLE. (1810)
Anonymous, edited by Ina Ferris
URL for Definition of Gothic - Wikipedia
Website for Information Defining and Explaining Gothic Literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_novel

Gothic horror seems to be a form of terror and horror literature mixed in with romance during the Romantic Era in the 18th century. Horace Walpole is credited with having a lot to do with the invention of the genre. Gothic architecture accompanies the gothic literature of the time. The key ingredients to Gothic literature seem to be creating enjoyable fear in the form of ghost stories or the paranormal, and using mutant creatures such as werewolves, witches, demons or ghosts. Anti-Catholicism in the form of using the Inquisition was a common theme too. A subgenre of Gothic literature by female authors also became popular.

Source References
http://members.aol.com/iamudolpho/basic.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_novel