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 94
... Italian , at all events in that , the last romance published in her lifetime , she made a gallant attempt to redeem the subject of monastic tyranny , and to treat it in a manner that should be quite terrible and yet consistent with ...
... Italian , at all events in that , the last romance published in her lifetime , she made a gallant attempt to redeem the subject of monastic tyranny , and to treat it in a manner that should be quite terrible and yet consistent with ...
Page 95
... Italy and its Inhabitants had been Mrs Radcliffe's stand - by in certain sections of The Mysteries of Udolpho , and ... Italian with superfluous exactness – that Vivaldi heard the groans of the tortured and was himself bound on the rack ...
... Italy and its Inhabitants had been Mrs Radcliffe's stand - by in certain sections of The Mysteries of Udolpho , and ... Italian with superfluous exactness – that Vivaldi heard the groans of the tortured and was himself bound on the rack ...
Page 185
... Italy and Its Inhabitants , as source for Mysteries of Udolpho 95 ; see also Radcliffe , Ann Grosse , Marquis , Horrid Mysteries 15 , 51 , 73-4n . , 96 Grimm , Jakob , with Grimm , Wilhelm , Deutsches Wörterbuch 77 , 86n . Gubar , Susan ...
... Italy and Its Inhabitants , as source for Mysteries of Udolpho 95 ; see also Radcliffe , Ann Grosse , Marquis , Horrid Mysteries 15 , 51 , 73-4n . , 96 Grimm , Jakob , with Grimm , Wilhelm , Deutsches Wörterbuch 77 , 86n . Gubar , Susan ...
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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