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Gothic Horror

Horror in the Gothic literary mode. The British Library's Discovering Literature article by Professor John Bowen describes Gothic characters who "find themselves in a strange place; somewhere other, different, mysterious", a world of "violent differences in power", and an aim at "the sublime, to shock us out of the limits of our everyday lives with the possibility of things beyond reason and explanation". INFERENCE, marked as such: the mapping from the literary mode to tattoo subject matter is this researcher's, not the source's - the article makes no tattoo claim.
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gothic; gothic horror; the sublime; ruins

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    John Bowen, The British Library

    British Library Discovering Literature article by Professor John Bowen. Verbatim: Gothic characters "find themselves in a strange place; somewhere other, different, mysterious"; the mode reaches for "the sublime, to shock us out of the limits of our everyday lives with the possibility of things beyond reason and explanation". Fetched from the British Library's .cn mirror because bl.uk paths for this article did not resolve during this task.

    cultural institution · retrieved 2026-08-28

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