Glossary

Abject

Allegory

Allusion

Ambiguity

Anthropocene

Archetype

Canon

Couplet

Darwinian

Deconstruction

Doppelgänger

Dystopia

Ecocriticism

Enjambment

Epic poetry

Epistolary

The Fall

Feminist literary criticism

Frame narrative

French Revolution (1789)

Galvanism

Globalization

Gothic

Hermeneutics

Imagery

Linnaean

Metaphor

Metonymy

Motif

Narrative

Narrator

The Northwest Passage

Ontology

The Other

Poetic foot

Poetic meter

Posthumanism

Prometheus

Psychoanalytic literary theory

Queer theory

Romanticism

Scansion

Sublime

Supernatural

Symbolism

Sympathy

Travel literature

The uncanny

The uncanny valley

Unreliable narrator

Utopia

Victorian (literary period)