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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... Appeared ; who think the Relation of this Appearance to be a Reflection , and endeavour what they can to Blast Mrs. Bargrave's Reputation ; and to Laugh the Story out of Countenance . But the Circumstances thereof , and the Chearful ...
... Appeared ; who think the Relation of this Appearance to be a Reflection , and endeavour what they can to Blast Mrs. Bargrave's Reputation ; and to Laugh the Story out of Countenance . But the Circumstances thereof , and the Chearful ...
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... appeared in the dress of the country where they happened to live , or they would have been more than suspected of witchcraft , which we find was not always the case . ' ' You are speaking of old women , and not of witches , ' said W ...
... appeared in the dress of the country where they happened to live , or they would have been more than suspected of witchcraft , which we find was not always the case . ' ' You are speaking of old women , and not of witches , ' said W ...
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... appeared : she descended three steps , and entered a walk , formed of native earth , but bordered with ossifications of sheep , and shells of cockle and oyster , which gave this eastern part of the inclosure rather a marine appearance ...
... appeared : she descended three steps , and entered a walk , formed of native earth , but bordered with ossifications of sheep , and shells of cockle and oyster , which gave this eastern part of the inclosure rather a marine appearance ...
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