romantic literature what does gothic literature do you know for people in the 19th century is it um

distances them from egotistical calculation right there's this world and maybe we need that more

than ever now now we need that yeah because like there is a world that's arising around them

which is very confusing to them much as the world that's arising around them, which is very confusing to them, much as the

world that's arising around us is very confusing to us, where hierarchical bonds, patriarchal bonds,

separations of classes are being undermined, not by choices they made, but by modes of production.

Or maybe a new mode of production is asserting itself as a new form of nature or a new

natural order.

And there's this tension with a previous conception of nature or maybe even maybe that's

where the gothic trope of eternal love comes in.

Yeah.

So like you need to reach towards cosmic or romantic or, like, archetypal or

by ron, whatever you want to call it.

These archetypes that allow you to, like, separate yourself from this world of

accountancy and this world of accumulation and this world of exploitation.

Like, and the Brontes, it seems to me, were at a perfect spot to not only separate

themselves from that through novels like this and elsewhere, but also to encounter it,

right?

So like the father encounters the Luddite rebellion and the daughters and son

encounter the Chartist movement, right?

Like this early working class movement for democracy and freedom and rights, you know?

And so maybe in some way, you know, not that she's conscious of it, but Emily Lagasse

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