Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook, 1700-1820Research Fellow in English Emma Clery, E. J. Clery, Robert Miles Manchester University Press, 2000 - 306页 In the 1790s, while across the Channel a political revolution raged, Britain was struck by a reading revolution, a taste for terror fiction that seemed to know no bounds. Ann Radcliffe and Monk Lewis were only the most celebrated of a host of writers purveying a new brand of Gothic literature. How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? What did the term Gothic mean, when Horace Walpole used it in the subtitle of his experimental novel The Castle of Ontranto? How did a type of writing which broke all the rules of literary composition current at the time, gradually gain critical acceptance? What connections can be made between the aesthetic of terror and the terror of the French Revolution? What happened to Gothic after the decline of its popularity, during a period of political reaction? |
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Their passions have nothing to restrain them : their imagination has nothing to
check it . ... its rise chiefly to two causes ; to the want of proper names for objects ,
and to the influence of imagination and passion over the form of expression .
Their passions have nothing to restrain them : their imagination has nothing to
check it . ... its rise chiefly to two causes ; to the want of proper names for objects ,
and to the influence of imagination and passion over the form of expression .
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Of the passions which belong to SELF - PRESERVATION ( I . vi ) Most of the
ideas which are capable of making a powerful impression on the mind , whether
simply of Pain or Pleasure , or of the modifications of those , may be reduced very
...
Of the passions which belong to SELF - PRESERVATION ( I . vi ) Most of the
ideas which are capable of making a powerful impression on the mind , whether
simply of Pain or Pleasure , or of the modifications of those , may be reduced very
...
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It is asserted by almost all the critics who have sat in judgment on this admirable
performance , that its tendency is to deprave the heart , to vitiate the
understanding , and to enlist the passions in the cause of vice . Differing as I do
with these ...
It is asserted by almost all the critics who have sat in judgment on this admirable
performance , that its tendency is to deprave the heart , to vitiate the
understanding , and to enlist the passions in the cause of vice . Differing as I do
with these ...
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imagination originality terror | 99 |
1757 | 112 |
7c William Duff An Essay on Original Genius 1767 | 127 |
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