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 69
... beautiful and full of fancy , yet still , unconnected as they are with each other , and conveying no result to the understanding .... SOURCE : extract from review article , ' On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition ; and ...
... beautiful and full of fancy , yet still , unconnected as they are with each other , and conveying no result to the understanding .... SOURCE : extract from review article , ' On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition ; and ...
Page 80
... beautiful eyes . ' The student's terror was allayed on finding that the proffered eyes were only harmless spectacles , and he bought a pocket - telescope from Coppola . With its aid he looks across into Professor Spalanzani's house ...
... beautiful eyes . ' The student's terror was allayed on finding that the proffered eyes were only harmless spectacles , and he bought a pocket - telescope from Coppola . With its aid he looks across into Professor Spalanzani's house ...
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... beautiful damsel . True beauty is seen not only as the prize of virtue but as a durable quality which may be veiled but not defeated by ugliness . The union of the real and the ideal is possible . In The Monk , beauty , physical and ...
... beautiful damsel . True beauty is seen not only as the prize of virtue but as a durable quality which may be veiled but not defeated by ugliness . The union of the real and the ideal is possible . In The Monk , beauty , physical and ...
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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