This article examines the relationship between Nodier’s novel Jean Sbogar and the works of the two most famous Gothic novelists of the early nineteenth century, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Gregory Lewis. By questioning Nodier’s treatment of fundamental aspects of Gothic aesthetics (the heroine’s character, the castle motif, the dynamics of persecution, and the kind of emotion intended to be evoked), this article shows in detail how Jean Sbogar simultaneously draws on and distances itself from the Gothic novel.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques