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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... ideas of the sublime , because they are considered as objects of terror . As serpents and poisonous animals of almost all kinds . And to things of great dimensions , if we annex an adventitious idea of terror , they become without ...
... ideas of the sublime , because they are considered as objects of terror . As serpents and poisonous animals of almost all kinds . And to things of great dimensions , if we annex an adventitious idea of terror , they become without ...
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... ideas that rush in upon the mind together . SOURCE : extracts from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful ( 1757 ) ; modern edition , edited by J. T. Boulton ( London , 1958 ) , pp . 39-40 ...
... ideas that rush in upon the mind together . SOURCE : extracts from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful ( 1757 ) ; modern edition , edited by J. T. Boulton ( London , 1958 ) , pp . 39-40 ...
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... ideas and in the usage of terms is no rare phenomenon in intellectual history ; it is true even of philosophers and , still more , of popular writers . The inconsistent use of the term ' Gothic ' simultaneously in both eulogistic and ...
... ideas and in the usage of terms is no rare phenomenon in intellectual history ; it is true even of philosophers and , still more , of popular writers . The inconsistent use of the term ' Gothic ' simultaneously in both eulogistic and ...
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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