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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... Mary Shelley did not leave Frankenstein to the tender mercies of literary history or popular tradition . The most important of the new studies of the novel by Mary Poovey ( 1980 ) [ * ] reveals that there are significant differences ...
... Mary Shelley did not leave Frankenstein to the tender mercies of literary history or popular tradition . The most important of the new studies of the novel by Mary Poovey ( 1980 ) [ * ] reveals that there are significant differences ...
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... Mary Shelley was conscious , moreover , of a strangely intimate relationship between her feelings toward her dead mother , her romance with a living poet , and her own sense of vocation as a reader and writer is made perfectly clear by ...
... Mary Shelley was conscious , moreover , of a strangely intimate relationship between her feelings toward her dead mother , her romance with a living poet , and her own sense of vocation as a reader and writer is made perfectly clear by ...
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A Casebook Victor Sage. Mary Poovey My Hideous Progeny : Mary Shelley and the Feminization of Romance ( 1980 ) To most of her acquaintances , the mature Mary Shelley was simply a conundrum . ' Your writings and your manner are not in ...
A Casebook Victor Sage. Mary Poovey My Hideous Progeny : Mary Shelley and the Feminization of Romance ( 1980 ) To most of her acquaintances , the mature Mary Shelley was simply a conundrum . ' Your writings and your manner are not in ...
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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