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 158
... Monster , as soon as he is created , takes on [ a different aspect of ] the role ' . Moreover , if we postulate that Mary Shelley is more concerned with Milton than she is with Aeschylus , the intertwining of meanings grows even more ...
... Monster , as soon as he is created , takes on [ a different aspect of ] the role ' . Moreover , if we postulate that Mary Shelley is more concerned with Milton than she is with Aeschylus , the intertwining of meanings grows even more ...
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... monster , the product and symbol of self - serving desire , the exhausted scientist is immediately confronted with a dream explication of his crime : having denied domestic relationships by indulging his selfish passions , he has , in ...
... monster , the product and symbol of self - serving desire , the exhausted scientist is immediately confronted with a dream explication of his crime : having denied domestic relationships by indulging his selfish passions , he has , in ...
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... monster , who can achieve no community with those whose energy culture has regulated and refined into ' sensibility ' . . . . - The monster carries with it the guilt and alienation that attend Frankenstein's self - assertion ; yet , by ...
... monster , who can achieve no community with those whose energy culture has regulated and refined into ' sensibility ' . . . . - The monster carries with it the guilt and alienation that attend Frankenstein's self - assertion ; yet , by ...
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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