Both of these factors lead to the further marginalizing of the Gothic compared to the Romantic. Gothic is often seen as the more popular genre it's also identified more typically with women, while Romanticism is identified with men. Romanticism is probably the larger category in terms of number of authors and texts, and it's certainly priviledged by critics as the genre with greater aesthetic value. Other scholars see them as quite distinct, or even see the Gothic as the precursor that leads to the rise of Romanticism. Romanticism is sometimes characterized as the larger movement, of which the Gothic is a part, a subset, or variety. I think it continues well beyond then, even to contemporary times. Gothic: Primary rise is usually considered 1765 (Walpole's Otranto) through 1820 (Maturin's Melmouth the Wanderer) it's primarily been studied as a British movement, but it's also a huge movement in America and on the Continent (France, Germany, etc.). Many point to the pubication of William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads in 1792 as the beginning of literary romanticism.
We're mostly talking about Romanticism in LITERATURE, but note that it's also appearing in music and visual arts, across all of these countries. Romanticism: 1770 through 1860: Begins (?) in Germany, spreads to England, hits France (1820s) and becomes popular in America through much of the nineteenth century. There are those, indeed, who would like to deny the relationship altogether." (Robert Hume, “Gothic Versus Romantic,” p.282)īoth the Gothic and the Romantic were transatlantic (or even global) movements, although so far we've focused on the British variety (as does most of the scholarship on both!). There is a persistent suspicion that Gothicism is a poor and probably illegitimate relation of Romanticism, and a consequent tendency to treat it that way. "That Gothicism is closely related to Romanticism is perfectly clear, but it is easier to state the fact than to prove it tidily and convincingly. Now what about the Gothic Versus Romanticism?
"Romanticism" refers to a particular movement in literature, NOT to those early tomes of the 15- and 1600s Romanticism comes later, although it looks back to the Romance. So many of the Gothic Novels we're reading (particularly Otranto) could be seen as Romances, dealing as they do with improbable characters with strange quests.
Knights on a quest for a magic sword and aided by characters like fairies and trolls would be examples of things found in romance fiction." (). Another definition explains "An extended fictional prose narrative about improbable events involving characters that are quite different from ordinary people. The connotations were of wild adventures rather than romantic longing as in the modern meaning of romance" (). "Romance" refers (in the context we're using for discussion here) to "lengthy French or Spanish stories written in the 1500s and 1600s involving episodic encounters with supernatural or exciting events. First, we need to distinguish between the Romance and Romanticism (both with capital "R" and both different from " romance" of your Valentine's Day weekend and " romantic" as in what your significant other did).
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