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 49
... writing , whatever one might say about it , is assuredly not without merit . It became the necessary fruit of the revolutionary tremors felt by the whole of Europe . For anyone who was familiar with the extent of the miseries which evil ...
... writing , whatever one might say about it , is assuredly not without merit . It became the necessary fruit of the revolutionary tremors felt by the whole of Europe . For anyone who was familiar with the extent of the miseries which evil ...
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... Writing in 1648 , Nicholas Bacon avers that English laws are largely Gothic in origin : ' Nor can any nation upon earth shew so much of the ancient Gothique law as this Island hath . ' In 1672 , Sir William Temple calls the English a ...
... Writing in 1648 , Nicholas Bacon avers that English laws are largely Gothic in origin : ' Nor can any nation upon earth shew so much of the ancient Gothique law as this Island hath . ' In 1672 , Sir William Temple calls the English a ...
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... writing Frankenstein was through reading , and to a lesser extent through writing . ― Endlessly studying her mother's works and her father's , Mary Shelley may be said to have ' read ' her family and to have been related to her reading ...
... writing Frankenstein was through reading , and to a lesser extent through writing . ― Endlessly studying her mother's works and her father's , Mary Shelley may be said to have ' read ' her family and to have been related to her reading ...
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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