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 54
... effect upon the mind of the human personages engaged in its wonders , and dragged along by its machinery , is comparatively an inferior object . The hero and heroine , partakers of the supernatural character which belongs to their ...
... effect upon the mind of the human personages engaged in its wonders , and dragged along by its machinery , is comparatively an inferior object . The hero and heroine , partakers of the supernatural character which belongs to their ...
Page 85
... effect . I will not venture to decide whether he has succeeded or not . How exactly we can trace back the uncanny effect of such recurrent similarities to infantile psychology is a question I can only lightly touch upon in these pages ...
... effect . I will not venture to decide whether he has succeeded or not . How exactly we can trace back the uncanny effect of such recurrent similarities to infantile psychology is a question I can only lightly touch upon in these pages ...
Page 166
... effect , murdered domestic tranquillity : I thought I saw Elizabeth , in the bloom of health , walking in the streets of Ingolstadt . Delighted and surprised , I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips , they became ...
... effect , murdered domestic tranquillity : I thought I saw Elizabeth , in the bloom of health , walking in the streets of Ingolstadt . Delighted and surprised , I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips , they became ...
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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