FANTASTIC BODY TRANSFORMATIONS

GOTHIC

features:

• dark, remote and unfamiliar landscapes and, more recently, troubled mindscapes
• ontological uncertainty: questions of identity ? victimization, isolation, uprootedness
• interest in states of trepidation, dread, panic, claustrophobia, and paranoia
• mysteries, hidden secrets, limited point of view, disjointed narration

examples: 
Ann Radcliffe, Thy Mysteries Of Udolpho (1794) 
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) 
Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) 
Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) 
Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory (1984)