09-26-2010, 05:44 PM
(09-26-2010, 05:29 PM)AliceChell Wrote: Remember, also, that in historical times electricity, gasoline and generators were not in use. So the inconvenience from their absence would not have arisen.
Alice, do you include the gaslight era in your preferred historical bracket, or confine it to candlelight?
Although there is nothing scholarly in doing so, I tend to classify Gothics into three periods: Candle, Gaslight and Modern Era. The "Gaslight" period has a certain appeal for me because I associate it with Sherlock Holmes and the 1944 movie Gaslight, which was based on the 1938 play (and, it appears, later novelized). I agree that modern-era Gothics are less usually less atmospheric, though many of the better Holts and Stewarts take place in the 20th Century.
