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 117
... Goths . Following Orosius's statement , ' Getae illi qui et nunc Gothae ' , Jordanes says that ' the Getae we have proved in a previous passage to be Goths , on the testimony of Orosius Paulus'.5 This identification of the Getes with the ...
... Goths . Following Orosius's statement , ' Getae illi qui et nunc Gothae ' , Jordanes says that ' the Getae we have proved in a previous passage to be Goths , on the testimony of Orosius Paulus'.5 This identification of the Getes with the ...
Page 120
... Goths ( for a certain мs reads Geatun ) are known to have inhabited the upper part of the Cimbrica Chersonesus , still called by the Danes Jutland.'12 Speed's Historie ( 1611 ) in discussing " The Saxons Origi- nal ' , identifies the ...
... Goths ( for a certain мs reads Geatun ) are known to have inhabited the upper part of the Cimbrica Chersonesus , still called by the Danes Jutland.'12 Speed's Historie ( 1611 ) in discussing " The Saxons Origi- nal ' , identifies the ...
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... Goths ' in England . The actual facts of the historical Gothic conquest of mighty Rome and the Gothic Völkerwanderungen are never so strange as the peregrination which in the minds of the seventeenth- century English writers brought the ' ...
... Goths ' in England . The actual facts of the historical Gothic conquest of mighty Rome and the Gothic Völkerwanderungen are never so strange as the peregrination which in the minds of the seventeenth- century English writers brought the ' ...
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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