Gothic Tropes in The Hound of the Baskervilles

I have written before about how detective fiction (and the mystery genre more broadly) emerged out of the Gothic. I even touched briefly on this particular book. But today I want to give a much more in-depth examination of the Gothic elements in Arthur Conan Doyle’s celebrated Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, first published in serialized form in 1901–2.  Continue reading Gothic Tropes in The Hound of the Baskervilles

Gothic Vocab: Liminal

Last year I started a series of posts highlighting vocab terms that will help you better understand the Gothic. So far, we’ve covered the sublime, the uncanny, and the grotesque. Today, I want to turn our attention to an adjective that is frequently employed to describe people, places, and situations in Gothic literature: “liminal.”

Woman in brown jacket and white skirt stands with her back to the viewer and head turned. A muddy landscape of small hills with clumps of grass stretches before her, with a light fog creating an ethereal atmosphere.
Catherine stands upon the moor in the 2011 TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights

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