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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... material I have been able to represent directly in the Casebook selection of criticism . Other important sources of information and comment I have been obliged to exclude for reasons of space from the main body of the selection . Some ...
... material I have been able to represent directly in the Casebook selection of criticism . Other important sources of information and comment I have been obliged to exclude for reasons of space from the main body of the selection . Some ...
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... materials , is a phænomenon we cannot account for . 2 But if the critic , beneath his apparent indifference to irony ... material or writers cited relate to the Notes for the Introduction , below . Literature provides the standard , mid ...
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... material . It had always filled a large place in the English imagination , which was familiar with its outer forms , its espionage system , the silent removal of its victim by night , the black- hung torture - chamber , the great ...
... material . It had always filled a large place in the English imagination , which was familiar with its outer forms , its espionage system , the silent removal of its victim by night , the black- hung torture - chamber , the great ...
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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