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Gothic fictions ‘shadow the progress of modernity with counter-narratives displaying the underside of enlightenment and humanist values
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Botting, The Dark Side Of Learning
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According to Reformation theories of learning Dr Faustus’s scholarship should have been the means of his salvation, but instead it plunges him into damnation’
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Emma Smith, Reformation theories
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The quest for forbidden knowledge is a repeated trope of Gothic fiction.
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Emma Smith, Forbidden Knowledge
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The Modern Prometheus’ refers to a mythological prototype for challenging godly power; in Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire, and thus the power of life itself, from Zeus and was sentenced to eternal punishment for his crime
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Emma Smith, Greek Mythology
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Terror ‘expands the soul and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life; horror contracts, freezes and nearly annihilates them'
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Ann Radcliffe, 'On The Supernatural in Poetry'
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That the supernatural figures of Gothic fiction represent deep unconscious desires has become a commonplace of criticism'
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Emma Smith, Gothic Criticism
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Gothic fiction repeatedly shows us victims who are irresistibly, even sexually, drawn to their predators
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Emma Smith
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