This theme is prevalent throughout the Gothic genre, from the earlier poetry of Coleridge, Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797-98); through to Bram Stoker's popular novel Dracula (1897) and the striking late set Gothic text The Bloody Chamber (1979) by Angela Carter. ... The temptation of protagonists is similarly presented in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the characters are enticed by nightmare life in death, 'her lips were red, her looks were free'8. ... Unlike Dracula and Christabel, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a character based morality bal...

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Shelley includes references to Percy Shelley's poems and other Romantic poems such as the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', the references to these show to the reader the Romantic view of the importance of emotions and the imagination, and also the importance of the individual. ...

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Northanger Abbey is a novel that is about more than a girl who is looking to find a husband. Its author Jane Austen is able to create a type of gothic parody that through out the novel is integrated into the characterization and able to show the realities of a young girl growing up in a complicated...

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