Anne Radcliffe's novel "The Italian" incorporates many aspects of the Gothic that can be found weaved throughout the text. Radcliffe's novel is a combination of an exploration into a striking culture, with looming family secrets, subtle hints of supernatural forces at work and G...

Samuel Coleridge wrote during a time period where gothic styling influenced many writers. This trend by writers of the era rises to the surface prominently in ?The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?. Coleridge uses gothic elements here to determine the existence and fate of the Mariner?s faulty spirit and...

Death is defined as, \"The termination or extinction of something.\" Edgar Allen Poe uses this description in \"The Fall of the House of Usher\" in different ways. Poe\'s intention when writing \"The Fall of the House of Usher\" was not to present a moral, lesson, or truth to the reader; he was si...