The Sublime and Supernatural in the Gothic.

Important Elements in Gothic Literature The gothic genre, as with all genres, is made up of many elements and concepts resulting in a massively broad and varied spectrum; including the supernatural, the sublime and horror to name but a few of the more common and generally fundamental ones. Some concepts may be clearly overt, and others will be more discreetly manipulated, but nevertheless a gothic text will more often than not include many of these …

…likely that Shakespeare's Hamlet, Marlowe's Faustus and plays like them would possibly now not be studied throughout educational institutions everywhere. Bibliography *<Tab/>Bloom, C. (ed) Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, 1998. Macmillan. *<Tab/>Hogle, J.E. (ed) the Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction, 2003. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. *<Tab/>Kilgour, M. The Rise of the Gothic Novel, 1997. Routledge: London.