Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video explorers how the genres of Realism and The Gothic interact in victorian novels. While it focuses on Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensation classic Lady Audley's Secret (1862) and Richard Marsh's supernatural thriller The Beetle (1897) it also considers North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot's Adam Bede among others.
While the Realist movement was intended to shed off the influence of the Gothic and focus on 'the Real' it is shown how authors embraced the styles of one to accentuate the themes of the other.

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