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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... Novel : Developments in Criticism since Henry James STEPHEN HAZELL The Language of Literature NORMAN PAGE Issues in Contemporary Critical Theory PETER BARRY The Pastoral Mode BRYAN LOUGHREY The Romantic Imagination JOHN SPENCER HILL The ...
... Novel : Developments in Criticism since Henry James STEPHEN HAZELL The Language of Literature NORMAN PAGE Issues in Contemporary Critical Theory PETER BARRY The Pastoral Mode BRYAN LOUGHREY The Romantic Imagination JOHN SPENCER HILL The ...
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... novel . The American novel began with Brown , and Fiedler contends that this Gothick strain took visible root in the major authors of the nineteenth century : Poe , Hawthorne and Melville . 17 The 1790s , as Professor Tompkins shows in ...
... novel . The American novel began with Brown , and Fiedler contends that this Gothick strain took visible root in the major authors of the nineteenth century : Poe , Hawthorne and Melville . 17 The 1790s , as Professor Tompkins shows in ...
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... Novels , but of every kind of Literature & . & - She might have spared this pretension to our family who are great Novel - readers & not ashamed of being so ; - but it was necessary I suppose to the Self- Consequence of half her ...
... Novels , but of every kind of Literature & . & - She might have spared this pretension to our family who are great Novel - readers & not ashamed of being so ; - but it was necessary I suppose to the Self- Consequence of half her ...
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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