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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... century . This study goes right outside questions of literary genre or arguments about the romance . The importance of this contribution is that it does not rest with individual psychology , but attempts , convincingly I think , a ...
... century . This study goes right outside questions of literary genre or arguments about the romance . The importance of this contribution is that it does not rest with individual psychology , but attempts , convincingly I think , a ...
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... century - in fact , in the sixteenth century important group of geographers in the Scandinavian countries , particularly a circle of scholars centered at Upsala University , led by a nationalistic interest in the origin of their ...
... century - in fact , in the sixteenth century important group of geographers in the Scandinavian countries , particularly a circle of scholars centered at Upsala University , led by a nationalistic interest in the origin of their ...
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... century by Abraham Wheloc , probably the greatest Old English scholar of his day . Wheloc follows the inconsistency of the ' Alfredian ' scribe . The seventeenth - century evidence is clear beyond cavil , but the mutual support of Bede ...
... century by Abraham Wheloc , probably the greatest Old English scholar of his day . Wheloc follows the inconsistency of the ' Alfredian ' scribe . The seventeenth - century evidence is clear beyond cavil , but the mutual support of Bede ...
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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