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 101
... death together as fit frequenters of a funeral place of cypress , poison yews , and ruined tombs . It needs only the change of attitude already partly accomplished in Headley and others , from pious horror or compla- cent superiority to ...
... death together as fit frequenters of a funeral place of cypress , poison yews , and ruined tombs . It needs only the change of attitude already partly accomplished in Headley and others , from pious horror or compla- cent superiority to ...
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... death through science is fundamentally unselfish and that he can be his own guardian . But , as Mary Shelley ... death . Frankenstein ' penetra- te [ s ] into the recesses of nature ' in search of the secret of life , but what he ...
... death through science is fundamentally unselfish and that he can be his own guardian . But , as Mary Shelley ... death . Frankenstein ' penetra- te [ s ] into the recesses of nature ' in search of the secret of life , but what he ...
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... death - dealing , selfish desire into the domestic arena . By extension , nature is also suspect because , as the avatar of death , it lacks altogether the humane , moral aspect institutionalized in the family and society . Thus Mary ...
... death - dealing , selfish desire into the domestic arena . By extension , nature is also suspect because , as the avatar of death , it lacks altogether the humane , moral aspect institutionalized in the family and society . Thus Mary ...
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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