The English Gothic Novels and the Chinese Supernatural Tales in the Six Dynasties: A Comparative Study;

Both the Chinese supernatural tales in the Ming-Qing dynasties and British Gothic novels in the 18th Century are about ghost.

The heroines of traditional Gothic novels used to be depicted as the weak ones,who,without imagination and short of self-recognition,often employed irrationality instead of rationality when encountering problems in life and appear in weak forms.

Strictly speaking,British Gothic novel studies of Western countries began in 1950s.

This essay,from the viewpoint of social history,gives an analysis of the form and theme of Horace(Walpole s) The Castle of Otranto known as the first Gothic novel in Western countries,and points out that the novel,blending the romance and the realistic narrative,has such a political,revolutionary ideology that it cannot be considered as a pure amusing work.

On Emily Bronte s Innovative Application of Gothic Novel;

Firstly,through parody,Austen revises Gothic novels in a comic way for the purpose of negotiation with Gothic novels,as well as inheritance and preservation.