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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... artist , to prove herself by means of her pen and her imagination . ' In our family ' , Mary's stepsister Claire ... artistic ambivalence toward feminine self - assertion . Each of her six novels reflects this ambivalence to a greater or ...
... artist , to prove herself by means of her pen and her imagination . ' In our family ' , Mary's stepsister Claire ... artistic ambivalence toward feminine self - assertion . Each of her six novels reflects this ambivalence to a greater or ...
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... artist establishes and nurtures relationships with an audience is compatible not only with the valorization of relationship we have already seen in Frankenstein but with society's insistence that a woman achieve her identity through and ...
... artist establishes and nurtures relationships with an audience is compatible not only with the valorization of relationship we have already seen in Frankenstein but with society's insistence that a woman achieve her identity through and ...
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... artist , not the product of the self - indulgent ego . The monster's grotesqueness , its singularity are still signs ... artistic creation , however , comes not just from the guilt of superseding one's proper role or from a fear of the ...
... artist , not the product of the self - indulgent ego . The monster's grotesqueness , its singularity are still signs ... artistic creation , however , comes not just from the guilt of superseding one's proper role or from a fear of 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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