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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... perhaps because of a barrage of official discredit . It was repeatedly denounced as a dangerous form of the romance : a term which is commonly used to mean , after Cervantes , an improbable , absurdly hyperbolic kind of writing either ...
... perhaps because of a barrage of official discredit . It was repeatedly denounced as a dangerous form of the romance : a term which is commonly used to mean , after Cervantes , an improbable , absurdly hyperbolic kind of writing either ...
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... Perhaps less surprisingly , Edmund Burke [ * ] admitted to having whiled away many important hours when he should have been devoting his attention to more weighty matters – reading romances . And Macaulay , whose essay on Horace Walpole ...
... Perhaps less surprisingly , Edmund Burke [ * ] admitted to having whiled away many important hours when he should have been devoting his attention to more weighty matters – reading romances . And Macaulay , whose essay on Horace Walpole ...
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... perhaps by approaching the tradition of The Castle of Otranto as developed in German horror fiction rather than in the novels of English gentlewomen . At any rate , the appearance of The Monk in 1796 made its author a showpiece at all ...
... perhaps by approaching the tradition of The Castle of Otranto as developed in German horror fiction rather than in the novels of English gentlewomen . At any rate , the appearance of The Monk in 1796 made its author a showpiece at all ...
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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