Apr 13, 2022 · Goths are a subculture found in modern society. They have their own beliefs and values which make them unique. This gothic subculture has been around since the late 1970s and 1980s and has been inspired by Gothic paganism and punk rock. There is no monolithic or singular definition of what being a goth means.

This book explores why lecherous monks, evil nuns, dank torture chambers and haunted abbeys have filled the pages of gothic novels for two hundred years.

Gothic paganism or Gothic polytheism was the original religion of the Goths before their conversion to Christianity. The Goths first appear in historical records in the early 3rd century and were Christianised in the 4th and the 5th centuries.

This book is the first to read the Gothic ideology through the historical context of both King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and the extensive French anti-clerical and pornographic works that were well-known to Horace Walpole and Matthew Lewis.

Diane Long Hoeveler. The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780–1880. Gothic Literary Studies. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 361. £90.00 (cloth).

Defining an ideology for the gothic subculture is difficult for several reasons. The first is that although there are patterns, commonalities in almost all Gothic, each member defines its own concept of subculture, that is, each one defines what it means to be Goth.

This book is the first to read the Gothic ideology through the historical context of both King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and the extensive French anti-clerical and pornographic works that were well-known to Horace Walpole and Matthew Lewis.

May 15, 2014 · The Gothic Ideology is the first scholarly book to examine the literary and historical origins and uses of these themes, analyzing at the same time their importance in gothic literatures intended for the British lower and middle classes from 1780 to 1880.

Aug 15, 2014 · The Gothic Ideology is the first scholarly book to examine the literary and historical origins and uses of these themes, analyzing at the same time their importance in gothic literatures intended for the British lower and middle classes from 1780 to 1880.

The Gothic ideology : religious hysteria and anti-Catholicism in British popular fiction 1780-1880 / Diane Long Hoeveler.