Definition of Gothic romance

1. Noun. A romance that deals with desolate and mysterious and grotesque events.

Generic synonyms: Romance
Derivative terms: Gothic Romancer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gothic Romance

Gotham
Gothamist
Gothamists
Gothamite
Gothamites
Gothenburg
Gothic
Gothic Lolita
Gothic alphabet
Gothic arch
Gothic arch tracing
Gothic arches
Gothic architecture
Gothic double
Gothic palate
Gothic romance (current term)
Gothic romancer
Gothically
Gothicise
Gothicised
Gothicises
Gothicising
Gothicism
Gothicity
Gothicize
Gothicized
Gothicizes
Gothicizing
Gothick
Gothicky

Literary usage of Gothic romance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Development of the English Novel by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1899)
"The, Renovation of Gothic romance The Gothic romance, the superstitious elements of which had been incorporated for minor effects into ' Waverley,' ..."

2. Asiatic Studies, Religious and Social by Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (1899)
"... on historic fact—The Historical Romance—Defoe, the modern mythmaker—The Gothic romance—Revival under Scott —Contemporary historic nereis—Esmond, Romola, ..."

3. Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck (1913)
"The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic romance (1765) by Horace Walpole ... The unusual improbabilities || of this Gothic romance were welcomed by readers weary of ..."

4. Lectures on the Harvard Classics by William Allan Neilson (1914)
"The extent to which this interest was ill-informed and merely sentimental is nowhere better illustrated than in the rise of the so-called "Gothic romance. ..."

5. Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance by Richard Hurd (1788)
"And can it pafs for any thing better than a jumble of Gothic romance and pagan fable ? a barbarous modern conceit, ..."

6. A Catalogue of Books in First Editions Selected to Illustrate the History of by Grolier Club (1917)
"CHARLES ROBERT MATURIN (1782-1824) AND THE RENOVATION OF Gothic romance The hold which the Gothic romance had on popular imagination is evidenced by its ..."

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