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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... reading of the romances of chivalry , the forerunners of the heinous Gothick romances.3 On a visit to a Scottish bishop , Johnson disappeared into the library for a whole weekend , rudely ignoring his host . Later , he admitted he had ...
... reading of the romances of chivalry , the forerunners of the heinous Gothick romances.3 On a visit to a Scottish bishop , Johnson disappeared into the library for a whole weekend , rudely ignoring his host . Later , he admitted he had ...
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... readers : the Gothick gained its hold through the expansion of the readership , and in particular through the increase in ... reading , on the analogy of gin or laudanum , are a subject of widespread comment in the magazines . Two short ...
... readers : the Gothick gained its hold through the expansion of the readership , and in particular through the increase in ... reading , on the analogy of gin or laudanum , are a subject of widespread comment in the magazines . Two short ...
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... reading about ( or of ) her mother's work must have been painful , given her knowledge that that passionate feminist writer had died in giving life to her , to bestow upon Wollstonecraft's death from complications of childbirth the ...
... reading about ( or of ) her mother's work must have been painful , given her knowledge that that passionate feminist writer had died in giving life to her , to bestow upon Wollstonecraft's death from complications of childbirth the ...
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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