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 43
... expressions , is represented as being spoken by the Almighty himself ? But if he be an infidel , he has acted consistently enough with that character , in his endeavours first to influence the fleshly appetites , and then to pour ...
... expressions , is represented as being spoken by the Almighty himself ? But if he be an infidel , he has acted consistently enough with that character , in his endeavours first to influence the fleshly appetites , and then to pour ...
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... expression . Explain this to me . ' Leigh Hunt , who had known Shelley longer than most of her new London set , found her friends ' confusion amusing enough to rhyme : - And Shelley , four - famed – for her parents , her lord , And the ...
... expression . Explain this to me . ' Leigh Hunt , who had known Shelley longer than most of her new London set , found her friends ' confusion amusing enough to rhyme : - And Shelley , four - famed – for her parents , her lord , And the ...
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... expression of the imagination from the more egotistical , less defensible act of public self - assertion . " For Mary Shelley , the imagination is properly a vehicle for escaping the self , not a medium of personal power or even of self ...
... expression of the imagination from the more egotistical , less defensible act of public self - assertion . " For Mary Shelley , the imagination is properly a vehicle for escaping the self , not a medium of personal power or even of self ...
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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