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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That the exercise of our benevolent feelings , as called forth by the view of human
afflictions , should be a source of pleasure , cannot appear wonderful to one who
considers that relation between the moral and natural system of man , which ...
That the exercise of our benevolent feelings , as called forth by the view of human
afflictions , should be a source of pleasure , cannot appear wonderful to one who
considers that relation between the moral and natural system of man , which ...
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... busy sounds are stirring , and the sun itself seems to contradict every doubtful
tale , and lessen every feeling of terror . ... rather than the deep and solemn
feelings excited under more accordant circumstances , and left long upon the
mind .
... busy sounds are stirring , and the sun itself seems to contradict every doubtful
tale , and lessen every feeling of terror . ... rather than the deep and solemn
feelings excited under more accordant circumstances , and left long upon the
mind .
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How deficient Dryden was of a poet ' s feelings in the fine province of the
beautiful and the graceful , is apparent from his alteration of the Tempest , by
which he has not only lessened the interest by incumbering the plot , but has
absolutely ...
How deficient Dryden was of a poet ' s feelings in the fine province of the
beautiful and the graceful , is apparent from his alteration of the Tempest , by
which he has not only lessened the interest by incumbering the plot , but has
absolutely ...
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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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