Whitby Abbey’s ‘stark Gothic outline’
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OCR: Paper 2 The Gothic
As a character in William Faulkner’s play-novel Requiem for a Nun (1951) says, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ This suggests a useful definition of literary Gothic: a work in which a buried past exerts extraordinary force on the present, often by supernatural means. This is the motor driving one of the most potent Gothic novels of all, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897).
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