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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... thing as trifling , or contemptible , that may be dangerous . There are many animals , who though far from being ... things of great dimensions , if we annex an adventitious idea of terror , they become without comparison greater . A ...
... thing as trifling , or contemptible , that may be dangerous . There are many animals , who though far from being ... things of great dimensions , if we annex an adventitious idea of terror , they become without comparison greater . A ...
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... things contributes to the effect of the picture ; because the images in painting are exactly similar to those in ... thing can strike the mind with its greatness , which does not make some sort of approach towards infinity ; which ...
... things contributes to the effect of the picture ; because the images in painting are exactly similar to those in ... thing can strike the mind with its greatness , which does not make some sort of approach towards infinity ; which ...
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... things to it , above all , those things which seem to the new faculty of self - criticism to belong to the old surmounted narcissism of the earlist period of all . * But it is not only this narcissism , offensive to the ego ...
... things to it , above all , those things which seem to the new faculty of self - criticism to belong to the old surmounted narcissism of the earlist period of all . * But it is not only this narcissism , offensive to the ego ...
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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