18th century dramaReformed comediesSentimental comediesFarces, harlequinadesRomancesTragi-comediesNeo-classical playsAffective tragedies (often she-tragedies)

Female writers: 1st half of 18th century

Female writers: 1st half of the 18th century

Female writers: 2nd half of the 18th century

Female writers: 2nd half of 18th century

Gothic novels

• [Horace Walpole: Castle of Otranto]• Clara Reeve: The Old English Baron (1777)• Ann Radcliffe: The Romance of the Forest

–The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)–The Italian

• [Mathew Lewis: The Monk]• Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1818)• Parody: Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (publ.

posthumously 1818)

Architecture

Gothic fiction

• (pseudo) medieval Gothic; oriental Gothic, imperial Gothic etc

• 19th century: Brontes, E.A. Poe, Hawthorne, Dickens, Stoker, Wells (Island of Dr Moreau 1896)

• The sublime (< Burke: Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful): feeling of awe/pleasure/terror/fear in view of something grand, which is both beautiful and threatening at the same time.

Jane Austen

• Northanger Abbey• Sense and Sensibility (publ. 1811)• Pride and Prejudice (publ. 1813)• Mansfield Park (publ. 1814)• Emma (publ. 1816)• Persuasion (publ. 1818)