| 释义 |
Definition of Gothic novel in English: Gothic novelnounɡɒθɪkˈnɒvlɡɒθɪkˈnɒvl An English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudo-medieval setting. Example sentencesExamples - Although it runs to just seventy-seven pages and is consequently the shortest collection she published, it contains almost as many ghosts or exiled spirits as a full-blown gothic novel.
- Because The Old Manor House is not a gothic novel, and because Smith is more interested in dramatizing the importance of property over romance, she provides a rational explanation for the ghostly sights and sounds.
- The dedicated six each put in more than 600 hours' study devouring topics like Tudor history and gothic novels over the two-year course - equivalent of half a university year.
- True the words were simple and had none of the sweeping romanticism she was used to reading about in her gothic novels.
- Zofloya was a major source for the young Percy Shelley's gothic novels.
- Other early literary influences were the gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe, the idealistic writings of Schiller, as well as works by Sir Walter Scott, the great Russian poet Pushkin, and Nikolay Gogol.
- Its very faults were Wagner's and intrinsic with a story line as silly and bloodcurdling as the most opprobrious gothic novel ever written.
- Readers of Brown's gothic novels realize how frustrating his quirky writing can be: obscure, incomplete, dialogic, difficult to pin down in terms of its engagement with contemporary politics in particular.
- Luckily for her and listeners alike, ‘The Title Song’ gets it exactly right with the sort of apologia found in gothic novels of the late nineteenth century.
- Personal pain and suffering have been the focus of Greek tragedies, Elizabethan plays, and gothic novels over the centuries.
- Don't think I've ever read a gothic novel, unless you consider Jane Eyre as such.
- Equally, there's nothing slight about McIntosh's next project - a four-part BBC adaptation of the first two of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy of gothic novels.
- Originally ‘supernatural’ was a religious term referring to God and angels, and the religious or mythic sublime persists in discussions of the gothic novel, as in the work of Wilt and Day.
- I'm sorry if I don't read your gothic novels about vampires or your anthems to anti-Catholicism, but I so happen to read older books.
- This conflict between the desires of the deceased and the will of those still living is aptly illustrated in the gothic novel Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson.
- Dramatic as such images are, the artist's own story is even more extraordinary, following a plot almost as sensational as one of Sir Walter Scott's gothic novels.
- I want it to come to a really magnificent, fulfilling end, like a great gothic novel, at least partly because I want it to stand as an example of what TV can be at its greatest.
- Actually, they bore such an extraordinary resemblance to one another that they might have emerged from a modern gothic novel, concocted by a singularly imaginative author.
- Its description of intrigue and maneuvering among the various royals reads like a cheap gothic novel.
- It is no accident that the first gothic novel appears early in the Romantic Age.
- Miller stares out of his engraved portrait like a tousle-headed hero of a gothic novel.
- Her Northanger Abbey (written 1803; published 1818) both makes fun of the excesses of the gothic novels of her time and defends the novel as a genre as appropriate reading matter for its audience.
- I could not just sit and cry like a heroine from a gothic novel.
- Captain Brookes and his crew are debating the respective merits of the cinematic adaptations of Mary Shelley's gothic novel, Frankenstein.
- The book even opens with a quotation from the famous gothic novel: ‘I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created.’
- In language that strikingly recalls the fatal myopia that sets in motion Mary Shelley's gothic novel, Frankenstein, the judge claims ‘the creature [is] not greater than the creator’.
Definition of Gothic novel in US English: Gothic novelnounɡɒθɪkˈnɒvl An English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudomedieval setting. Example sentencesExamples - Luckily for her and listeners alike, ‘The Title Song’ gets it exactly right with the sort of apologia found in gothic novels of the late nineteenth century.
- The dedicated six each put in more than 600 hours' study devouring topics like Tudor history and gothic novels over the two-year course - equivalent of half a university year.
- The book even opens with a quotation from the famous gothic novel: ‘I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created.’
- Equally, there's nothing slight about McIntosh's next project - a four-part BBC adaptation of the first two of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy of gothic novels.
- In language that strikingly recalls the fatal myopia that sets in motion Mary Shelley's gothic novel, Frankenstein, the judge claims ‘the creature [is] not greater than the creator’.
- Personal pain and suffering have been the focus of Greek tragedies, Elizabethan plays, and gothic novels over the centuries.
- Readers of Brown's gothic novels realize how frustrating his quirky writing can be: obscure, incomplete, dialogic, difficult to pin down in terms of its engagement with contemporary politics in particular.
- Its very faults were Wagner's and intrinsic with a story line as silly and bloodcurdling as the most opprobrious gothic novel ever written.
- This conflict between the desires of the deceased and the will of those still living is aptly illustrated in the gothic novel Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson.
- It is no accident that the first gothic novel appears early in the Romantic Age.
- Actually, they bore such an extraordinary resemblance to one another that they might have emerged from a modern gothic novel, concocted by a singularly imaginative author.
- Its description of intrigue and maneuvering among the various royals reads like a cheap gothic novel.
- Don't think I've ever read a gothic novel, unless you consider Jane Eyre as such.
- Captain Brookes and his crew are debating the respective merits of the cinematic adaptations of Mary Shelley's gothic novel, Frankenstein.
- Originally ‘supernatural’ was a religious term referring to God and angels, and the religious or mythic sublime persists in discussions of the gothic novel, as in the work of Wilt and Day.
- Miller stares out of his engraved portrait like a tousle-headed hero of a gothic novel.
- I'm sorry if I don't read your gothic novels about vampires or your anthems to anti-Catholicism, but I so happen to read older books.
- Because The Old Manor House is not a gothic novel, and because Smith is more interested in dramatizing the importance of property over romance, she provides a rational explanation for the ghostly sights and sounds.
- Zofloya was a major source for the young Percy Shelley's gothic novels.
- Dramatic as such images are, the artist's own story is even more extraordinary, following a plot almost as sensational as one of Sir Walter Scott's gothic novels.
- Other early literary influences were the gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe, the idealistic writings of Schiller, as well as works by Sir Walter Scott, the great Russian poet Pushkin, and Nikolay Gogol.
- Although it runs to just seventy-seven pages and is consequently the shortest collection she published, it contains almost as many ghosts or exiled spirits as a full-blown gothic novel.
- Her Northanger Abbey (written 1803; published 1818) both makes fun of the excesses of the gothic novels of her time and defends the novel as a genre as appropriate reading matter for its audience.
- True the words were simple and had none of the sweeping romanticism she was used to reading about in her gothic novels.
- I could not just sit and cry like a heroine from a gothic novel.
- I want it to come to a really magnificent, fulfilling end, like a great gothic novel, at least partly because I want it to stand as an example of what TV can be at its greatest.
|