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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... reader . - But the actual history of critical opinion is much more diverse and interesting than such a literary - historical judgement would give us the right to expect . The impact of these novels on their contemporary and subsequent ...
... reader . - But the actual history of critical opinion is much more diverse and interesting than such a literary - historical judgement would give us the right to expect . The impact of these novels on their contemporary and subsequent ...
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... reader to lead to their own eventual rejection . The piece is an educative spoof : it contains the usual jibe at the gullibility of the female reader , but plays this off against the pomposity and dullness of the Scots Magazine's ...
... reader to lead to their own eventual rejection . The piece is an educative spoof : it contains the usual jibe at the gullibility of the female reader , but plays this off against the pomposity and dullness of the Scots Magazine's ...
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... readers alike . Mrs Radcliffe's method of presenting her material is a complex mixture of external and internal techniques . Sometimes she works entirely by externals , describing characters , situations and scenery to the reader so ...
... readers alike . Mrs Radcliffe's method of presenting her material is a complex mixture of external and internal techniques . Sometimes she works entirely by externals , describing characters , situations and scenery to the reader so ...
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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