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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To form a judgment in the case , the rise , progress , and genius of Gothic
Chivalry must be explained . The circumstances in the Gothic fictions and
manners , which are proper to the ends of poetry ( if any such there be ) must be
pointed out .
To form a judgment in the case , the rise , progress , and genius of Gothic
Chivalry must be explained . The circumstances in the Gothic fictions and
manners , which are proper to the ends of poetry ( if any such there be ) must be
pointed out .
第74页
Yet they both appear , when most inflamed , to have been more particularly rapt
with the Gothic fables of chivalry . Spenser , tho ' he had been long nourished
with the spirit and substance of Homer and Virgil , chose the times of chivalry for
his ...
Yet they both appear , when most inflamed , to have been more particularly rapt
with the Gothic fables of chivalry . Spenser , tho ' he had been long nourished
with the spirit and substance of Homer and Virgil , chose the times of chivalry for
his ...
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But the old spirit of chivalry was not extinguished : and what remained of it was
inflamed by the books called Romances , which were now common in Europe ,
and , being written in the vulgar toungues , and filled with marvellous adventures
...
But the old spirit of chivalry was not extinguished : and what remained of it was
inflamed by the books called Romances , which were now common in Europe ,
and , being written in the vulgar toungues , and filled with marvellous adventures
...
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the Laws trans 1750 | 61 |
imagination originality terror | 99 |
7c William Duff An Essay on Original Genius 1767 | 124 |
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