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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A Casebook Victor Sage. of horror fiction is a projection , in heavily codified form , of deeply instinctual drives in the unconscious mind . He accounts for the recurrent motifs of this kind of fiction by seeing them , not as literary ...
A Casebook Victor Sage. of horror fiction is a projection , in heavily codified form , of deeply instinctual drives in the unconscious mind . He accounts for the recurrent motifs of this kind of fiction by seeing them , not as literary ...
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... fiction [ Frankenstein ] is a novel , or more properly a romantic fiction , of a nature so peculiar that we ought to describe the species before attempting any account of the individual production . The first general division of works ...
... fiction [ Frankenstein ] is a novel , or more properly a romantic fiction , of a nature so peculiar that we ought to describe the species before attempting any account of the individual production . The first general division of works ...
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... fictional technique is very close to the ' judicious obscurity ' in literature which Edmund Burke praised so highly in ... fiction , adding narrative interest to aesthetic speculation . Her novels are pervaded by sublime images closely ...
... fictional technique is very close to the ' judicious obscurity ' in literature which Edmund Burke praised so highly in ... fiction , adding narrative interest to aesthetic speculation . Her novels are pervaded by sublime images closely ...
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 |
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