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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... literary form and the commentary on it are permeated by controversy , and this fact alone explains something about the value of a species of writing which remained part of the pulse of literary expectation for three generations of ...
... literary form and the commentary on it are permeated by controversy , and this fact alone explains something about the value of a species of writing which remained part of the pulse of literary expectation for three generations of ...
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... literary genre or arguments about the romance . The importance of this contribution is that it does not rest with individual psychology , but attempts , convincingly I think , a cultural analysis of the literary form . Modestly ...
... literary genre or arguments about the romance . The importance of this contribution is that it does not rest with individual psychology , but attempts , convincingly I think , a cultural analysis of the literary form . Modestly ...
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... literary heiresses . Indeed , as ' the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity ' , and the wife of a third , Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was the daughter and later the wife of some of Milton's keenest critics ...
... literary heiresses . Indeed , as ' the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity ' , and the wife of a third , Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was the daughter and later the wife of some of Milton's keenest critics ...
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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