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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... narrative , are all selected with a view to the author's primary object , of moving the reader by ideas of impending danger , hidden guilt , supernatural visiting - by all that is terrible , in short , combined with much that is ...
... narrative , are all selected with a view to the author's primary object , of moving the reader by ideas of impending danger , hidden guilt , supernatural visiting - by all that is terrible , in short , combined with much that is ...
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... narrative is bound by his charter to gratify the curiosity of the public , and whether , as a painter of actual life , he is not entitled to leave something in shade , when the natural course of events conceals so many incidents in ...
... narrative is bound by his charter to gratify the curiosity of the public , and whether , as a painter of actual life , he is not entitled to leave something in shade , when the natural course of events conceals so many incidents in ...
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... narrative strategy that insists on the reader's sympathetic engagement with even the monstrous part of her self , she simultaneously satisfies Percy's standards for true art and her own conflicting needs for self - assertion and social ...
... narrative strategy that insists on the reader's sympathetic engagement with even the monstrous part of her self , she simultaneously satisfies Percy's standards for true art and her own conflicting needs for self - assertion and social ...
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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