EPISODE 10: The Gothic Novel

2022-08-15

Part One. 0:00—"Gothic Romance." 7:47—The novel criticized. 9:49—Birth of the Gothic. 11:50—Walpole, Castle of Otranto. 14:11—Barbarous Middle Ages. 17:20—Anti-Catholic. 22:70—Return of the Repressed. 23:46—The political unconscious. 27:47—Why the Gothic? 28:11—The French Revolution. 31:55—Tottering Structures. 33:47—Death and sex. 36:00—The sublime. 40:02—Interlude. Part Two. 41:50—Trivial and amoral. 47:06—Female Gothic and bourgeois domesticity. 53:24—Soft porn. 57:39—Gothic Architecture. 1:01:32—Medievalism. 1:02:25—Miracles of the modern. 1:06:12—Victorian Gothic.

Part One. 0:00—"Gothic Romance." 7:47—The novel criticized. 9:49—Birth of the Gothic. 11:50—Walpole, Castle of Otranto. 14:11—Barbarous Middle Ages. 17:20—Anti-Catholic. 22:70—Return of the Repressed. 23:46—The political unconscious. 27:47—Why the Gothic? 28:11—The French Revolution. 31:55—Tottering Structures. 33:47—Death and sex. 36:00—The sublime. 40:02—Interlude.

Part Two. 41:50—Trivial and amoral. 47:06—Female Gothic and bourgeois domesticity. 53:24—Soft porn. 57:39—Gothic Architecture. 1:01:32—Medievalism. 1:02:25—Miracles of the modern. 1:06:12—Victorian Gothic.

Interludes: Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata in A Major (1819), performed by Chiara Bertoglio, 2011.

Additional music: Franz Liszt, Totentanz (1859), performed by Neal O' Doan with orchestra, 2018.

Illustration: The Nightmare (detail), by Henry Fuseli, (1790), Wikipedia.

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