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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... 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 censors , as to ...
... 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 censors , as to ...
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... critics , nor can the confused notions of felicity which may be excited destroy the purity of their minds , or the effect of the moral lessons inculcated . The writer of this paper felt not a single loose idea excited by the warmest ...
... critics , nor can the confused notions of felicity which may be excited destroy the purity of their minds , or the effect of the moral lessons inculcated . The writer of this paper felt not a single loose idea excited by the warmest ...
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... critics might have overlooked an error into which they themselves have fallen to a still greater excess : for they cannot allow the moral tendency of the romance to plead the pardon of two or three passages , which appear to them to be ...
... critics might have overlooked an error into which they themselves have fallen to a still greater excess : for they cannot allow the moral tendency of the romance to plead the pardon of two or three passages , which appear to them to be ...
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