本文从前人对哥特小说概念界定出发,将18世纪末19世纪初哥特小说和19世纪后期哥特小说以及现代文学流派比较,提出其中某种哥特精神内涵流失的现象并分析其原因。笔者认为哥特小说目前的普遍概念界定仅包含哥特元素与恐怖特征导致了其概念的混乱,试图得出其美学精神本质为死亡的观点。 Based on the previous definition of the Gothic novel, this article compares the late Gothic novel of the late 18th century with the Gothic novel of the late 19th century and the modern literary genre, and puts forward the phenomenon of losing one of the Gothic spiritual connotations and analyzes its causes. The author thinks that the universal definition of Gothic novels at present includes only the gothic elements and the terrorist features which lead to the chaos of their concepts, trying to come to the conclusion that the essence of aestheticism is death.