Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook, 1700-1820E. 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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... Letters . Letter II I look upon Chivalry , as on some mighty River , which the fablings of the poets have made immortal . It may have sprung up amidst rude rocks , and blind deserts . But the noise and rapidity of its course , the ...
... Letters . Letter II I look upon Chivalry , as on some mighty River , which the fablings of the poets have made immortal . It may have sprung up amidst rude rocks , and blind deserts . But the noise and rapidity of its course , the ...
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... Letter VI Let it be no surprize to you that , in the close of my last Letter , I presumed to bring the Gerusalemme liberata into competition with the Iliad . So far as the heroic and Gothic manners are the same , the pictures of each ...
... Letter VI Let it be no surprize to you that , in the close of my last Letter , I presumed to bring the Gerusalemme liberata into competition with the Iliad . So far as the heroic and Gothic manners are the same , the pictures of each ...
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... Letter IX .. [ French neo - classical critics ] aspired to a sort of supremacy in Letters ; and finding the Italian language and its best writers standing in their way , they have spared no pains to lower the estimation of both . 8 ...
... Letter IX .. [ French neo - classical critics ] aspired to a sort of supremacy in Letters ; and finding the Italian language and its best writers standing in their way , they have spared no pains to lower the estimation of both . 8 ...
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