Darkness from light: the origins of Gothic literature- lunchtime talk, 21 November | Event in Hitchin | AllEvents

Darkness from light: the origins of Gothic literature- lunchtime talk

North Hertfordshire Museum

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Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 12:00 pm

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Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 12:00 pm (GMT)

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Brand Street, Hitchin, United Kingdom

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Darkness from light: the origins of Gothic literature- lunchtime talk
The enlightenment bred reason, rationality and the Gothic, a literary genre steeped in darkness.

At a time when scientists and philosophers were looking towards a bright future, Gothic novels were haunted by violent pasts that seeped into the present. Gothic themes were explored through an aesthetic replete with ruins, mountainous landscapes, and pathetic fallacy.

This talk will look at the inception of the Gothic in the context of the French Revolution, societal anxieties and cultural fashions. It will look at Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) as the first Gothic novel, before considering other early examples, including Anne Radcliffe, Charlotte Dacre and Matthew Lewis.


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Darkness from light: the origins of Gothic literature- lunchtime talk, 21 November | Event in Hitchin | AllEvents
Darkness from light: the origins of Gothic literature- lunchtime talk
Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 12:00 pm