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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... review of 1797 [ * ] , might have been expected to respond sympathetically , since he shared the prejudice with many of Lewis's readers ; but he attacks the novel in the Critical Review because he thinks it blasphemous . At the time ...
... review of 1797 [ * ] , might have been expected to respond sympathetically , since he shared the prejudice with many of Lewis's readers ; but he attacks the novel in the Critical Review because he thinks it blasphemous . At the time ...
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... reviews and prefaces , and in his important essay on the supernatural in the Foreign Quarterly Review of 1827 [ * ] , in which he describes some of the changes in religious belief during the recent past . In these and other pieces ...
... reviews and prefaces , and in his important essay on the supernatural in the Foreign Quarterly Review of 1827 [ * ] , in which he describes some of the changes in religious belief during the recent past . In these and other pieces ...
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... review of 39-43 ; de Sade on 48 , 94 , 98n .; relation to Shakespeare 24 ; talent for self- parody 27n .; prologue ... Review , The 14 ; Critical Review , The 26n . , 89 , 91 , 99n .; Letters from Italy in the Critical 1806 98n . , 130 ...
... review of 39-43 ; de Sade on 48 , 94 , 98n .; relation to Shakespeare 24 ; talent for self- parody 27n .; prologue ... Review , The 14 ; Critical Review , The 26n . , 89 , 91 , 99n .; Letters from Italy in the Critical 1806 98n . , 130 ...
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 |
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