On Emily Bronte s Innovative Application of Gothic Novel;

Firstly,through parody,Austen revises Gothic novels in a comic way for the purpose of negotiation with Gothic novels,as well as inheritance and preservation.

This article probes into Poe s succession to the early British gothic fiction tradition from the perspective of receptive aesthetics,demonstrates his innovation in the gothic fiction,and reveals the social,literary and artistic functions of his gothic fiction.

Gothic fictions are being created massively in this period of time, especially feminine gothic n.

My thesis is engaged in the study of this work from two perspectives: Frankenstein as Gothic fiction and as science fiction.

American southern novelists found gothic novels an ideal media to reveal the wrongs of the whites and the terrible consequences.

Based on closing reading of the novel, the thesis has studied the innovation in the artistic form of expression by emphatically analyzing the transcendence over Gothic novels, the abundant use of symbols and the original narrative technique in Wuthering Heights.

The heroines of traditional Gothic novels used to be depicted as the weak ones,who,without imagination and short of self-recognition,often employed irrationality instead of rationality when encountering problems in life and appear in weak forms.

Strictly speaking,British Gothic novel studies of Western countries began in 1950s.

This essay,from the viewpoint of social history,gives an analysis of the form and theme of Horace(Walpole s) The Castle of Otranto known as the first Gothic novel in Western countries,and points out that the novel,blending the romance and the realistic narrative,has such a political,revolutionary ideology that it cannot be considered as a pure amusing work.