The Gothick Novel: A CasebookVictor Sage Macmillan, 1990 - 190 pages Surveys the rise and development of the Gothick tale of mystery and horror, from the mid-18th Century to the eve of the Victorian period. Particular attention is given to Walpole's Castle of Otranto, Beckford's Vathek, Lewis's The monk, Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. |
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... England the starting - point of speculation about Jordanes's Scandza theory was inevitably the barbarian adventus in England , traditionally dated in Bede and the Anglo - Saxon Chronicle in 449 . From Bede downward , the Angles , Saxons ...
... England the starting - point of speculation about Jordanes's Scandza theory was inevitably the barbarian adventus in England , traditionally dated in Bede and the Anglo - Saxon Chronicle in 449 . From Bede downward , the Angles , Saxons ...
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... England , now was onely in the Countie of Kent . . . and is unto this day inviolably observed and kept , that tenure which at this day is called Gavell kynde . 22 This concluding passage is curious because it implies that gavelkynd is ...
... England , now was onely in the Countie of Kent . . . and is unto this day inviolably observed and kept , that tenure which at this day is called Gavell kynde . 22 This concluding passage is curious because it implies that gavelkynd is ...
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... England , in Literary Relations of England and Scandinavia in the Seventeeth Century ( Oxford , 1935 ) . F. E. Farley's Scandinavian Influences in the English Romantic Movement ( Boston , Mass . , 1903 ) is a valuable bibliographical ...
... England , in Literary Relations of England and Scandinavia in the Seventeeth Century ( Oxford , 1935 ) . F. E. Farley's Scandinavian Influences in the English Romantic Movement ( Boston , Mass . , 1903 ) is a valuable bibliographical ...
Contents
General Editors Preface | 7 |
SAMUEL JOHNSON 1750 p 31 EdmMUND BURKE 1757 p 33 | 33 |
RICHARD HURD 1762 p 38 s t Coleridge 1797 p 39 | 39 |
Copyright | |
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