Unseen Gothic Bundle (OCR A Level English Lit)

A complete guide to approaching and answering Section A, Paper 2 of A Level English Literature (‘The Gothic’).

Includes:

1. Unseen Gothic One-Stop Shop
   (Mark scheme; Exam rubric; Luckhurst’s Gothic Waves; Gothic concerns, character archetypes and key conventions; Setting as character; Decay and language in the Gothic; Metonymy; Movements within the Gothic)

2. Gothic Textual Survey
   (11 key Gothic texts across the periods of Early Gothic (1765-1788), High Gothic (1789-1813), Late Gothic (1814-1838), Post-Gothic (1839-1898), Postmodern (1960-) and the Female/Cosmic Gothic)

Coverage for each text mentioned:

• Title, year, Author
• Key context
• Tropes
• Narration (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)
• Key characters, setting and language

Resource from a student who achieved A* at A-Level in the 2022 series. Please leave a review if choosing to download, and credit if/when reusing! Thanks.