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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... symbolic picture . Godwin's Caleb Williams ( 1794 ) is the first novel to give a circumstantial account of an escape . Before writing it he had prepared his mind by reading criminal literature and , without sacrificing the symbolic ...
... symbolic picture . Godwin's Caleb Williams ( 1794 ) is the first novel to give a circumstantial account of an escape . Before writing it he had prepared his mind by reading criminal literature and , without sacrificing the symbolic ...
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... symbolic slipperiness which are at the heart of all the characterizations in Frankenstein . In fact , it is probably these continual and complex reallocations of meaning , among characters whose histories echo and re - echo each other ...
... symbolic slipperiness which are at the heart of all the characterizations in Frankenstein . In fact , it is probably these continual and complex reallocations of meaning , among characters whose histories echo and re - echo each other ...
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... symbolism plays for Mary Shelley by contrasting her use of it with Percy Shelley's significantly different description of the symbolic in his Preface to the 1818 Frankenstein . In his well - known justification for the central scene ...
... symbolism plays for Mary Shelley by contrasting her use of it with Percy Shelley's significantly different description of the symbolic in his Preface to the 1818 Frankenstein . In his well - known justification for the central scene ...
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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