1. The Gothic deals in transgressions and negativity, perhaps in reaction against the optimistic rationalism of its founding era, which allowed for a rethinking of the prohibitions and sanctions that had previously seemed divinely ordained but now appeared to be simple social agreements in the interest of progress and civic stability. (p. 5)
  2. Behind the states of fear and horror, and driving through the tissue of reasonable and rational explanations, loom the outlines of real horrors. In early Gothic this was sometimes the reality of the oppression of women, or children, in the patriarchy that denied them rights. (p. 8)
  3. Gothic deals in transgressions and negativity, perhaps in reaction against the optimistic rationalism of its founding era. (Page 5)
  4. Gothic deals with extreme states of past traumas and guilt. (page 6)
  5. The true period of gothic’s cultural aesthetics religious and political background was from 1764 to 1824 ( page 4)