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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... present audience through a variety of cultural and political reflexes . Its hallmark is a deliberate archaism . But what did ' Gothick ' mean ? The label itself was heavily nuanced in the eighteenth century , more so than modern readers ...
... present audience through a variety of cultural and political reflexes . Its hallmark is a deliberate archaism . But what did ' Gothick ' mean ? The label itself was heavily nuanced in the eighteenth century , more so than modern readers ...
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... present generation seems more particularly delighted , are such as exhibit life in its true state , diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world , and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in ...
... present generation seems more particularly delighted , are such as exhibit life in its true state , diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world , and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in ...
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... present day , the support of the highest powers , to save the supernatural from slipping into the ludicrous . The Incredulus odi is a formidable objection . There are some modern authors , indeed , who have endeavoured , ingeniously ...
... present day , the support of the highest powers , to save the supernatural from slipping into the ludicrous . The Incredulus odi is a formidable objection . There are some modern authors , indeed , who have endeavoured , ingeniously ...
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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