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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Page 61
... supernatural aid , and bring on the stage his actual fiend or ghost , or , like Mrs Radcliffe , explain by natural agency the whole marvels of his story . We have already , in some brief remarks on The Castle of Otranto , avowed some ...
... supernatural aid , and bring on the stage his actual fiend or ghost , or , like Mrs Radcliffe , explain by natural agency the whole marvels of his story . We have already , in some brief remarks on The Castle of Otranto , avowed some ...
Page 68
... supernatural is always the most effective , and is rather weakened and defaced , than strengthened by the subsequent recurrence of similar incidents . Even in Hamlet , the second entrance of the ghost is not nearly so impressive as the ...
... supernatural is always the most effective , and is rather weakened and defaced , than strengthened by the subsequent recurrence of similar incidents . Even in Hamlet , the second entrance of the ghost is not nearly so impressive as the ...
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... supernatural ' . Both these methods of applying the supernatural element were revived in the sensational novels of the third quarter of the nineteenth century and sporadically since . The first is not justly chargeable with what has ...
... supernatural ' . Both these methods of applying the supernatural element were revived in the sensational novels of the third quarter of the nineteenth century and sporadically since . The first is not justly chargeable with what has ...
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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