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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... tradition of popular Gothick . Instinctively , when wanting to frighten his gullible audience , he invokes all the old names , together with Macbeth , forming a complete mini - spectrum of pantomine oral tradition , a tiny glimpse into ...
... tradition of popular Gothick . Instinctively , when wanting to frighten his gullible audience , he invokes all the old names , together with Macbeth , forming a complete mini - spectrum of pantomine oral tradition , a tiny glimpse into ...
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... tradition in eighteenth - century thought always quoted certain parts of Shakespeare and Milton as authorities for the sublime . Burke's excitement , for example , over certain passages of Paradise Lost is a case of this [ * ] . Coral ...
... tradition in eighteenth - century thought always quoted certain parts of Shakespeare and Milton as authorities for the sublime . Burke's excitement , for example , over certain passages of Paradise Lost is a case of this [ * ] . Coral ...
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... tradition . The Villain / Hero of the Gothick begins to be seen in the modern period as an Elizabethan or Jacobean stage hero , playing out a later career between the covers of an eighteenth - century novel . The most comprehensive and ...
... tradition . The Villain / Hero of the Gothick begins to be seen in the modern period as an Elizabethan or Jacobean stage hero , playing out a later career between the covers of an eighteenth - century novel . The most comprehensive and ...
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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