How are Wuthering Heights and The Picture of Dorian Gray's settings bound up with their Gothic effects?

Abstract

This essay explores the interlinking of setting in Wuthering Heights and The Picture of Dorian Gray with the Gothic genre, focusing on how the gothic settings of the texts enhance both their emotional and physical landscapes. The essay continues to consider how socio-political factors such as isolation, gender divisions, and fear of 'otherness' are handled using the techniques of Gothic setting and the supernatural. It concludes that Gothic techniques and setting are integral to navigating the characters' psychological states, as well as the wider social environments they belong to.