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 139
... true than it seems but more true . There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed , ghosts gibber and shriek , maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes ; that place is , of course , the world ...
... true than it seems but more true . There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed , ghosts gibber and shriek , maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes ; that place is , of course , the world ...
Page 141
... True beauty is seen not only as the prize of virtue but as a durable quality which may be veiled but not defeated by ugliness . The union of the real and the ideal is possible . In The Monk , beauty , physical and spiritual , is a ...
... True beauty is seen not only as the prize of virtue but as a durable quality which may be veiled but not defeated by ugliness . The union of the real and the ideal is possible . In The Monk , beauty , physical and spiritual , is a ...
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... true poet may be judged only by legitimate peers , a jury ' impanelled by Time from the selectest of the wise of many generations ' . Society's mistaken accusation of artistic immorality , Percy explains , rests on ' a misconception of ...
... true poet may be judged only by legitimate peers , a jury ' impanelled by Time from the selectest of the wise of many generations ' . Society's mistaken accusation of artistic immorality , Percy explains , rests on ' a misconception of ...
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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