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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... fiction ; conducted , as by Shakspeare , it powerfully moves the strongest passions of the heart . - Next to the Gothic in point of sublimity and imagination comes the Celtic , which , if the superstition of the Lowlands be esteemed a ...
... fiction ; conducted , as by Shakspeare , it powerfully moves the strongest passions of the heart . - Next to the Gothic in point of sublimity and imagination comes the Celtic , which , if the superstition of the Lowlands be esteemed a ...
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... Fiction ( 1814 ) Dunlop's magisterial history deals briefly with English Gothic fiction . The extracts include his general comments on the genre , bracketing a survey of works by Walpole , Reeve and Radcliffe . The tone is belittling ...
... Fiction ( 1814 ) Dunlop's magisterial history deals briefly with English Gothic fiction . The extracts include his general comments on the genre , bracketing a survey of works by Walpole , Reeve and Radcliffe . The tone is belittling ...
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... Fiction ( 1805 ) Hugh Murray's arguments on the value of fiction reflect an eighteenth - century tradition , perhaps best exemplified by Lord Kames's influential The Elements of Criticism ( 1762 ) . Like Kames , Murray steers a middle ...
... Fiction ( 1805 ) Hugh Murray's arguments on the value of fiction reflect an eighteenth - century tradition , perhaps best exemplified by Lord Kames's influential The Elements of Criticism ( 1762 ) . Like Kames , Murray steers a middle ...
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