ALEXHA CHARLES
Write down the five most important ideas in this chapter.
- Landscapes: Smith speaks about wastelands and pitiless nature. (p.5)
- American Pressure: Smith says that this was frontier experience, solitude violence, absence of “developed society”, along with racial issues. (p.2)
- Pushing Towards Extremes: As Smith states, “Gothic tends to reinforce culturally prescribed doctrines of morality and propriety”. (p.3)
- Dark side of Enlightenment: Gothic explores religious profanities, occultism, necromancy, etc. (p.6)
- Classes: Middle classes displaying violence. Abuse of power from aristocracy, religious tyrants. (p.7)
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