Re: Literary roots and Horace Walpole
Posted by Old Grey  on 11/7/2010, 6:04 am, in reply to "Literary roots and Horace Walpole"
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If you put it like that, then I could say that, based upon the fact that many modern Wiccans are somewhat gothic by nature, then the gothic subculture has its origins in the goddess/nature worshipping cultures that developed around 30,000 years ago. See how silly that argument is?
It is by pure happenstance that many people who are attracted to gothic music and the goth subculture also are attracted to life's darker side in many, if not most, other respects. And that includes literature.
All that said, it remains that the gothic subculture that we have all come to know and love today is a purely musically-related movement beginning in the late 70's as the site clearly states.
Old Grey
Not a history student
But an historical fugure himself
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: As a history student I'd like to point out
: that Gothic subculture has also roots in
: Gothic horror literature and Gothic revival
: culture that began in late 18th Century.
: British nobleman Horace Walpole can be
: blamed for both - and generally for every
: Goth cliché that has haunted the genre even
: since.
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: Personally I found the subculture in my
: early 20's trough literature, movies and
: music and would like to stress that it is
: more than some sort of teenage rebellion
: phase, Its a matter of personal taste in
: aesthetics.
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