Nataliya T. Pakhsarian, DSc in Philology, Leading Researcher of the Department of Literary Studies, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovskii Avenue, 51/21, 117418, Moscow, Russia. Professor of Philological Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1, 119991, Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1292-9883
The research, carried out in the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has been financially supported by Russian Science Foundation (project No. 23-28-01727 “At the origins of contemporary horror genre: topos of horror in gothic fiction”). https://rscf.ru/project/23-28-01727 In French romanticism, along with the concept of a genius writer expressing his inner world in an artistic word, the idea of the need to take into account the taste of readers and strive for popularity developed, which caused criticism of “industrial literature” (S. Sainte-Beuve). Meanwhile, it was in the mainstream of fiction that the development of French “violent” prose of the late 1820 s – 1830 s primarily took place. Focusing on the English Gothic novel, on the French “black novel” of the turn of the 18–19 th centuries, mastering and appropriating the toposes of these works, the authors of “phrenetic” works – primarily members of “Young France”, nevertheless, transformed the Gothic tradition by turning to the description of modern events, abandoning the depiction of the supernatural, fantastic, strengthening the motives and images of brutal violence, endowing the villainous characters with infernal laughter, developing forms of “black humor”. This is how the line of succession stretches between the “frenzied” novels of the 19 th century.
Gothic tradition; “violent” novels; fear; black humor; horror literature.
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Pakhsarian, N.T. “The Originality of Gothic Motifs in French ‘Frenetic’ Novels”. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 3(65), 2024, pp. 9–23.
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