Mergence of Gothic and Romantic Elements in Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyer

The word Gothic originally referred to a Germanic tribe but later on it came to refer to the medieval art and architecture that was characterized by the use of pointed arches and vaults ( 1 ). The Gothic style did not really vaniSh in England after the end of the medieval period. It was revived as an architectural style in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that were the same flourishing time of novel writing (2).