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 111
... hand , was acquainted with the German villains put into circulation by the ' Stürmer und Dränger ' , following the example of Schiller's Räuber ; in his Bravo of Venice ( 1805 ) he was merely translating Abällino , der grosse Bandit ...
... hand , was acquainted with the German villains put into circulation by the ' Stürmer und Dränger ' , following the example of Schiller's Räuber ; in his Bravo of Venice ( 1805 ) he was merely translating Abällino , der grosse Bandit ...
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... hand in armour . In the evening I sat down , and began to write , without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate . The work grew on my hands , and I grew fond of it - add that I was very glad to think of anything , rather ...
... hand in armour . In the evening I sat down , and began to write , without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate . The work grew on my hands , and I grew fond of it - add that I was very glad to think of anything , rather ...
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... hand , both as the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft and as the lover and then wife of Percy Shelley , Mary was encouraged from her youth to fulfill the Romantic model of the artist , to prove herself by means of her ...
... hand , both as the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft and as the lover and then wife of Percy Shelley , Mary was encouraged from her youth to fulfill the Romantic model of the artist , to prove herself by means of her ...
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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