Gothic radicalism literature Book

GOTHIC RADICALISM...Book review 

I attempted to read through this book, I found it very difficult to get my head around the vocal and abbreviations. But however, I grab some information about the gothic literature and its meanings, it spoke about how gothic horror literature so referring to old victorian times e.g. Dracula, frankenstein etc. about how it all reflects on peoples uncertainties and issues in the world for example Dracula coming over to London to spread a a disease to infect everyone, this was written when the big depression hit and people had to move from the rural areas to find jobs within the city, it was during a very difficult time, there were also a lot of crimes being committed and the fear flooded to peoples heads and it panicked people.

Gothic Radicalism -Published article- 28th August 2014- Andrew Smith

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Resource Reference:  by Andrew Smith Gothic radicalism literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in the nineteenth century- New York St. Martins press 2000

I believe people writing these novels were subconsciously writing peoples inner fears and it was daunting when these were published.

This book also speaks about exploring the structure of the mind on how to over thinks from the sublime (uncertainty) to the beautiful and how we explore in different areas and how limitless we can be with our thinking where it become daunting and freightful. 

Also the book explores how we are attracted to great wonderful things but also attracted to negative pleasures, by scaring ourselves building a adrenaline rush thinking of the unknown and how our minds wonder towards this.

I found this book awfully hard to get into but I grabbed some information which I found interesting out of it and wanted to write a review and gather the information I got from it.

I find gothic literature hard to comprehend, it makes us wonder if it could be real, but I believe it reflects all whats going on in the world and it all has a hidden meaning behind it; it also causes the mind to become in a 'paradoxical' state, which I gathered from the book itself. By glorifying acts of violence in such a big way it becomes trivial, like its normal, making everyday crime just the way life is, and people don't react or dwell on acts of crime.

I feel gothic horror novels have been written with a open mind, we strive imagination and thinking of the unknown and opens our thoughts of problems that await in everyday life.