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

"Ayton Castle is a truly extraordinary property, widely regarded as Scotland's finest example of Gothic Revival architecture," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

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

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

Beginning with the superb 1843 competition entry, we see the practical architect making the vast corpus of graphic material required to restore a Gothic cathedral.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

But it was the Gothic chapel, three hundred feet long and a hundred feet high, a stone mountain, that dominated the scene.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover