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[Elaine Koogler]

CBlackwill at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 5/11/00 2:05:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> lilinah at earthlink.net writes:
> 
> > I see SCA Goths at events, and i think they do look kinda silly in
> >  that environment.
> 
> Actually, I would think that "Gothic" would be closer to period than it is
> today...Right or wrong??  I don't mean to slam anyones lifestyle...

As far as I know, "Gothic" in this sense refers to a Gothic Revival 
defined by Gothic novels, a literary form beginning in the late
eighteenth century and continuing to near the end of the nineteenth.
Examples include most of the stuff written by the Brontes, a wonderful
satire on the genre by Jane Austen, Frankenstein, on through Dracula or
perhaps The Hound of the Baskervilles as The Last Gothic Novel...

This is all academic, though, as, unfortunately, any sensible discussion
on this theme, for me, was ruined by Sarah  Michelle Gellar's SNL
routine about whether Tampa is more Goth than Orlando, with its dark
brooding quality that made it the undisputed Goth capital of Florida...
    
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