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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... nature true . Even in the description of his marvels , however , the author who manages this stile of composition with address , gives them an indirect importance with the reader , when he is able to describe with nature and with truth ...
... nature true . Even in the description of his marvels , however , the author who manages this stile of composition with address , gives them an indirect importance with the reader , when he is able to describe with nature and with truth ...
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... nature and to death . Frankenstein ' penetra- te [ s ] into the recesses of nature ' in search of the secret of life , but what he discovers in the ' vaults and charnel houses ' is the ' natural decay and corruption of the human body ...
... nature and to death . Frankenstein ' penetra- te [ s ] into the recesses of nature ' in search of the secret of life , but what he discovers in the ' vaults and charnel houses ' is the ' natural decay and corruption of the human body ...
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... nature and the ghastly essence of the natural world . Shelley most graphically describes nature's fateful fraternity with death in the setting for the final action of Frankenstein , the random upheavals of the glacial ice floes . Like ...
... nature and the ghastly essence of the natural world . Shelley most graphically describes nature's fateful fraternity with death in the setting for the final action of Frankenstein , the random upheavals of the glacial ice floes . Like ...
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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