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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... later – in Jane Austen [ * ] and , to an extent , in Scott [ * ] – with regard to the Gothick romance . Such doughty opposition explains , at least in part , Walpole's reluctance to own his fiction . Readers may differ profoundly from ...
... later – in Jane Austen [ * ] and , to an extent , in Scott [ * ] – with regard to the Gothick romance . Such doughty opposition explains , at least in part , Walpole's reluctance to own his fiction . Readers may differ profoundly from ...
Page 102
... later removed . The longest allegorical interlude , however , he made into a separate poem , which he later published under the title of " The Vision of the Maid of Orleans ' . It is a dream - allegory or vision- poem in three books ...
... later removed . The longest allegorical interlude , however , he made into a separate poem , which he later published under the title of " The Vision of the Maid of Orleans ' . It is a dream - allegory or vision- poem in three books ...
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... later to the subject of Scandza , he explains , as he had promised , how ' from this island of Scandza , as from a hive of races or a womb of nations , the Goths are said to have come forth long ago under their king , Berig by name ...
... later to the subject of Scandza , he explains , as he had promised , how ' from this island of Scandza , as from a hive of races or a womb of nations , the Goths are said to have come forth long ago under their king , Berig by name ...
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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