gothic

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The notice appears on the description of Cardiff University's English Literature module Gothic Fiction: The Victorians, which examines texts from the 19th Century.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale star in the actor-director’s confused, semi-satirical film that sets its Gothic story in 1930s Chicago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

One is the dense, dialect-heavy Gothic novel, 300-plus pages of exposition told second- or even thirdhand.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

Yet as Fennell has proven in a slew of interviews about the already polemical film, released Friday, the relationship between Brontë’s Gothic epic and its latest adaptation is more complicated than that.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

There is something disquieting about this Gothic, overgrown landscape.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer