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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... Poems J. R. WATSON Chaucer : Canterbury Tales J. J. ANDERSON Coleridge : ' The Ancient Mariner ' & Other Poems ALUN R. JONES & WILLIAM TYDEMAN Congreve : Comedies PATRICK LYONS Conrad : ' Heart of Darkness ' , ' Nostromo ' & ' Under ...
... Poems J. R. WATSON Chaucer : Canterbury Tales J. J. ANDERSON Coleridge : ' The Ancient Mariner ' & Other Poems ALUN R. JONES & WILLIAM TYDEMAN Congreve : Comedies PATRICK LYONS Conrad : ' Heart of Darkness ' , ' Nostromo ' & ' Under ...
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... poem was fitted with allegorical trappings , which Southey later removed . The longest allegorical interlude , however , he made into a separate poem , which he later published under the title of " The Vision of the Maid of Orleans ...
... poem was fitted with allegorical trappings , which Southey later removed . The longest allegorical interlude , however , he made into a separate poem , which he later published under the title of " The Vision of the Maid of Orleans ...
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... poem . Thomson's imagination was afire with the spectacle of the valorous , liberty- loving men of the north because he could appreciate their history as a phase of England's moral and political growth . The poem could be considered ...
... poem . Thomson's imagination was afire with the spectacle of the valorous , liberty- loving men of the north because he could appreciate their history as a phase of England's moral and political growth . The poem could be considered ...
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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