Ah yes, gothic romance. A large oxymoron if I've ever heard one, but it doesn't actually mean it’s like fault in our stars in Victorian England. What it was was it was a part of the humanities movement known as ‘romanticism’ in the late 18th and early 19th centuries before being taken over by ‘realism’ (insert gagging noise of disapproval.) But I digress (man I love that phrase), gothic (no not those parent problems, pp which is ironically something that is also usually pretty much missing from the boys, boys and girls who put on too much makeup) is very much a setting and feeling which is very much involved in victorian esque industrialized cities with raining dreary grey atmospheres and the supernatural being abound along with strong themes of the supernatural (Dracula) and the consequences of man playing god (such as in Frankenstein) and healthy doses of hedonism
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