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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... means of curbing the twin evils of English drama , crowd - pleasing sensa- tionalism and scurrilous wit , and replacing it with a more morally responsible form of theatre . In this passage prefixed to The Conquest of Granada , Part I ...
... means of curbing the twin evils of English drama , crowd - pleasing sensa- tionalism and scurrilous wit , and replacing it with a more morally responsible form of theatre . In this passage prefixed to The Conquest of Granada , Part I ...
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... means . His feeling , his gratitude , and finally the strong desires of human nature are all combined to ensure his fall . But still the temptations appear to be no more than human . We see where a man of truly virtuous principles would ...
... means . His feeling , his gratitude , and finally the strong desires of human nature are all combined to ensure his fall . But still the temptations appear to be no more than human . We see where a man of truly virtuous principles would ...
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... means deserve to be nor are they , so universally countenanced . Flat and insipid - they substitute whining weakness for passion ; and , in place of character and manners agreable to the present costume , they speak of these which never ...
... means deserve to be nor are they , so universally countenanced . Flat and insipid - they substitute whining weakness for passion ; and , in place of character and manners agreable to the present costume , they speak of these which never ...
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