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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... character of Matilda , the chief agent in the seduction of Ambrosio , appears to us to be the author's master ... character by no means demanded , such as ' no observation of character can justify , because no good man would willingly ...
... character of Matilda , the chief agent in the seduction of Ambrosio , appears to us to be the author's master ... character by no means demanded , such as ' no observation of character can justify , because no good man would willingly ...
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... characters and her readers alike . Mrs Radcliffe's method of presenting her material is a complex mixture of external ... character's mind and emotions are interacting in the very process of registering experience and compel- ling the ...
... characters and her readers alike . Mrs Radcliffe's method of presenting her material is a complex mixture of external ... character's mind and emotions are interacting in the very process of registering experience and compel- ling the ...
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... character . The 1831 Frankenstein resists modern science not because ' some accident ' prevents him from attending lectures but because ' one of those caprices of the mind ' distracts him from scientific speculations . By abandoning the ...
... character . The 1831 Frankenstein resists modern science not because ' some accident ' prevents him from attending lectures but because ' one of those caprices of the mind ' distracts him from scientific speculations . By abandoning 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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