1. 18th century drama Reformed comedies Sentimental comedies Farces, harlequinades Romances Tragi-comedies Neo-classical plays Affective tragedies (often she-tragedies)

2. Female writers: 1st half of 18th century Mary Davys: The Humours of York Elizabeth Cooper: The Rival Widows Charlotte Charke Lady Mary Montagu: Turkish Embassy Letters Elizabeth Haywood: A Wife to be Let (1723) The Fair Captive Love in Excess 1719-20 Adventures of Eovaai

3. Female writers: 1st half of the 18th century Sarah Fielding: Adventures of David Simple (1744) The Governess (1749) Charlotte Lennox: The Female Quixote (1752)

4. Female writers: 2nd half of the 18th century Laughing comedy vs. sentimental comedy Elizabeth Griffith: The Platonic Wife 1765 Hannah Cowley: The Belle‘s Strategem 1780 A Bold Stroke for a Husband (1783) A School for Greybeards (1786) Tragedies/serious drama Elizabeth Inchbald: Such Things Are (1787) Mariana Starke: The Widow of Malabar 1790 Joanna Baillie: Count Basil

5. Female writers: 2nd half of 18th century Hannah More: Percy 1777 (tragedy) – Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809) Fanny Burney: The Witlings (comedy) Evelina 1778 Cecilia 1782 Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindications of the Rights of Woman (1792) Charlotte Smith, Mary Hays, Amelia Opie: mixture of (political) radicalism and sentimentality

6. Gothic novels [Horace Walpole: Castle of Otranto] Clara Reeve: The Old English Baron (1777) Ann Radcliffe: The Romance of the Forest – The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) – The Italian [Mathew Lewis: The Monk] Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1818) Parody: Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (publ. posthumously 1818)

7. Architecture

8. Gothic fiction (pseudo) medieval Gothic; oriental Gothic, imperial Gothic etc 19th century: Brontes, E.A. Poe, Hawthorne, Dickens, Stoker, Wells (Island of Dr Moreau 1896) The sublime (< Burke: Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful): feeling of awe/pleasure/terror/fear in view of something grand, which is both beautiful and threatening at the same time.

9. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Sense and Sensibility (publ. 1811) Pride and Prejudice (publ. 1813) Mansfield Park (publ. 1814) Emma (publ. 1816) Persuasion (publ. 1818)