From the literature of the late 18th to early 19th century emerged the Gothic novel genre, which recalled bygone medieal days when landscapes were inhabited with ruined castles, foggy moors and damsels in distress.  Faced with an age focused on science and reason, writers could explore a simpler world in which forces of good and evil, supernatural powers, and mysterious occurrences could once more be considered legitmate.  Writers were free to imagine the effects that an untethered, Enlightenment-era scientific revolution might have had on the course of humanity.  Works by Burke, Radcliffe, Shelley, Stokes, Poe and others will be considered, as well as perspectives on contemporaneous art and musical performances.