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 41
... never to pass them , – hic labor , hic opus est . Figures that shock the imagination , and narratives that mangle the feelings , rarely discover genius , and always betray a low and vulgar taste . Nor has our author indicated less ...
... never to pass them , – hic labor , hic opus est . Figures that shock the imagination , and narratives that mangle the feelings , rarely discover genius , and always betray a low and vulgar taste . Nor has our author indicated less ...
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... never introduced . . . any real ghosts ' TICKLER : I never had any professed feeling of the super or preter- natural in a printed book . Very early in life , I discovered that a ghost , who had kept me in a cold sweat during a whole ...
... never introduced . . . any real ghosts ' TICKLER : I never had any professed feeling of the super or preter- natural in a printed book . Very early in life , I discovered that a ghost , who had kept me in a cold sweat during a whole ...
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... never , never painted by mortal pen ; for after a ' , what is ony description by us puir creturs o ' the works o ' the Great God ? NORTH : Perhaps it is a pity that Mrs Radcliffe never introduced into her stories any real ghosts ...
... never , never painted by mortal pen ; for after a ' , what is ony description by us puir creturs o ' the works o ' the Great God ? NORTH : Perhaps it is a pity that Mrs Radcliffe never introduced into her stories any real ghosts ...
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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