![]() | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This series most definitely fits into the 'gothic' genre category. Not only does it tell a story that adapts ideas from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (one of the most well known gothic novels), it also meets several of the criteria for gothic fiction, for example:
Moreover, these reviews/articles all refer to the series as being a 'gothic crime drama', or they make mention of gothic elements: Den of Geek, Metro, AV Club, Wyza, PopMatters and Stack. 49.188.11.201 ( talk) 02:39, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
The list goes on, but I am hoping you get the point. While some call it gothic many, many others call it something else, ranging from fantasy, horror and period crime drama - with the latter being most prevalaent.
Boz, the pen-name of Charles Dickens, was born in 1812 and would have been fifteen in 1827, the year the real Dickens went to work as junior clerk in the office of Ellis and Blackmore, where he, incidentally, learnt shorthand. I find no evidence of the Anatomy Act being passed by the Lower House in 1827, although a select committee was established to look into the question in 1828. The act was passed in 1832. Robert Peel resigned as Home Secretary in 1827, but returned to office in 1828. It was in this second term as Home Secretary that he established the Metropolitan Police. The visionary poet, William Blake, did indeed die in 1827, but whether Mary Shelley frequented his circle is a matter of conjecture. Mary Shelley was indeed courted by a Thomas Hogg and they coauthored a book. The real Hogg though lived to be seventy, dying in 1862. The other Hogg who comes to mind is James Hogg, who continues to be remembered for his The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. He too was in contact with London literary circles, although not necessarily with Blake or Shelley. He lived until 1835. Everybody got to be somewhere! ( talk) 17:40, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
In the first episode, one of the characters Mr Pritty is whilst collecting a freshly arrived body whistling the theme tune from Sean Bean's previous period drama: Sharpe in a more allegro than the song in Sharpe is performed... thought that would interest the Sharpe fans.
![]() | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This series most definitely fits into the 'gothic' genre category. Not only does it tell a story that adapts ideas from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (one of the most well known gothic novels), it also meets several of the criteria for gothic fiction, for example:
Moreover, these reviews/articles all refer to the series as being a 'gothic crime drama', or they make mention of gothic elements: Den of Geek, Metro, AV Club, Wyza, PopMatters and Stack. 49.188.11.201 ( talk) 02:39, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
The list goes on, but I am hoping you get the point. While some call it gothic many, many others call it something else, ranging from fantasy, horror and period crime drama - with the latter being most prevalaent.
Boz, the pen-name of Charles Dickens, was born in 1812 and would have been fifteen in 1827, the year the real Dickens went to work as junior clerk in the office of Ellis and Blackmore, where he, incidentally, learnt shorthand. I find no evidence of the Anatomy Act being passed by the Lower House in 1827, although a select committee was established to look into the question in 1828. The act was passed in 1832. Robert Peel resigned as Home Secretary in 1827, but returned to office in 1828. It was in this second term as Home Secretary that he established the Metropolitan Police. The visionary poet, William Blake, did indeed die in 1827, but whether Mary Shelley frequented his circle is a matter of conjecture. Mary Shelley was indeed courted by a Thomas Hogg and they coauthored a book. The real Hogg though lived to be seventy, dying in 1862. The other Hogg who comes to mind is James Hogg, who continues to be remembered for his The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. He too was in contact with London literary circles, although not necessarily with Blake or Shelley. He lived until 1835. Everybody got to be somewhere! ( talk) 17:40, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
In the first episode, one of the characters Mr Pritty is whilst collecting a freshly arrived body whistling the theme tune from Sean Bean's previous period drama: Sharpe in a more allegro than the song in Sharpe is performed... thought that would interest the Sharpe fans.