12-17-2008, 03:22 AM
Manderley Wrote:Just curious: What's the most important element in the novel: The gothic setting or the romantic storyline?
I don't care that much for romance, I must admit. In fact I rather prefer it when it's not too much a part of the story. It's all about the gothic atmosphere and settings for me. I'd rather have gothic with suspense than with romance any day, but since there's not that many people discussing gothic literature at all, I hope you don't mind me joining you here in this forum.
If you take the famous Bram Stoker's Dracula romance takes a very subtly place in the novel moreover it is seduction and force that Dracula acquires his prey. However some may consider this to be part of Gothic Romance that carnal desire being fulfilled. So I think the answer to your question is that some elements whether gothic or romantic, in every good Gothic novel you will not escape the romance.
