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 80
... falls in love with her so violently that he quite forgets his clever and sensible betrothed on her account . But Olympia was an automaton whose works Spalanzani had made , and whose eyes Coppola , the Sand - Man , had put in . The ...
... falls in love with her so violently that he quite forgets his clever and sensible betrothed on her account . But Olympia was an automaton whose works Spalanzani had made , and whose eyes Coppola , the Sand - Man , had put in . The ...
Page 89
... falls to their lot to review a book of travel . Thus English readers learned that , in Denmark , Count Struensee and ... fall of the Marquis of Pombal not only consigned members of his party to ingeniously hideous deaths , but raised as ...
... falls to their lot to review a book of travel . Thus English readers learned that , in Denmark , Count Struensee and ... fall of the Marquis of Pombal not only consigned members of his party to ingeniously hideous deaths , but raised as ...
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... fall but that , having been created female , she is fallen , femaleness and fallenness being essentially synonymous . For what Victor Frankenstein most importantly learns , we must remember , is that he is the ' author ' of the monster ...
... fall but that , having been created female , she is fallen , femaleness and fallenness being essentially synonymous . For what Victor Frankenstein most importantly learns , we must remember , is that he is the ' author ' of the monster ...
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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