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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Page 115
... Gothic ' was in prevailing usage a Modewort or cliché of very wide currency and that , as applied to literature and the fine arts , the same term was used with both eulogistic and disparaging connotations . What is not common knowledge ...
... Gothic ' was in prevailing usage a Modewort or cliché of very wide currency and that , as applied to literature and the fine arts , the same term was used with both eulogistic and disparaging connotations . What is not common knowledge ...
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A Casebook Victor Sage. from the same original with the other Gothic forms of government in most parts of Europe . " 2 John Oldmixon , writing in 1724 , also assimilates Gothic to English history : ' No Nation has preserv'd their Gothic ...
A Casebook Victor Sage. from the same original with the other Gothic forms of government in most parts of Europe . " 2 John Oldmixon , writing in 1724 , also assimilates Gothic to English history : ' No Nation has preserv'd their Gothic ...
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... Gothic tradition in England through the intermediary of the etymologizing which brought about the identifi- cation of Kentish Jutes and Goths ; Nathaniel Bacon states the matter succinctly : Another custom of descent remaineth , and ...
... Gothic tradition in England through the intermediary of the etymologizing which brought about the identifi- cation of Kentish Jutes and Goths ; Nathaniel Bacon states the matter succinctly : Another custom of descent remaineth , and ...
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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Abbey aesthetic Ambrosio André Breton Ann Radcliffe appeared artist beautiful Beckford become Bede called castle character convent critic dark death described dreams edition effect eighteenth century emotions England English extract fear feeling female fiction German Getae Getes ghost Gothic Fiction Gothic Romance Gothick novel Goths guilt heimlich Horrid Mysteries horror human idea images imagination Jordanes's Jutes Kent Lewis Lewis's liberty literary literature London Magazine Mary Shelley means melancholy Milton mind modern Monk monster moral murder Mysteries of Udolpho narrative nature Northanger Abbey novelist original Paradise Lost passions Percy perhaps pleasure poem poet poetry political Radcliffe Radcliffe's reader reading Review Sand-Man Satan Saxon Scandza Schedoni Scott secret seems sense sexual Shakespeare Shelley's SOURCE story style sublime supernatural superstition symbolic T. S. Eliot tale taste term Gothic terror theme things tradition translated uncanny Vathek Victor Frankenstein Walpole Walton William writing