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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Without all doubt , the torments which we may be made to suffer , are much
greater in their effect on the body and mind , than any pleasures which the most
learned voluptuary could suggest , or than the liveliest imagination , and the most
...
Without all doubt , the torments which we may be made to suffer , are much
greater in their effect on the body and mind , than any pleasures which the most
learned voluptuary could suggest , or than the liveliest imagination , and the most
...
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... more than a general view of the real scene itself could do . Whatever this may
be called , which crowns the mind of a poet , and distinguishes it from every other
mind , our whole heart instantly acknowledges it in Shakspeare , Milton , Gray ...
... more than a general view of the real scene itself could do . Whatever this may
be called , which crowns the mind of a poet , and distinguishes it from every other
mind , our whole heart instantly acknowledges it in Shakspeare , Milton , Gray ...
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Besides generating imbecility of mind , the sensibility of readers of novels , it will
likewise be observed , is easily awakened , and the tear of ... Such is the effect of
these false representations of life produce on weak and youthful minds .
Besides generating imbecility of mind , the sensibility of readers of novels , it will
likewise be observed , is easily awakened , and the tear of ... Such is the effect of
these false representations of life produce on weak and youthful minds .
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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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书目信息
| 名称 | Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook, 1700-1820 Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook, 1700-1820, Robert Miles |
| 编者 | Research Fellow in English Emma Clery, E. J. Clery, Robert Miles |
| 版本 | 再版 |
| 出版商 | Manchester University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0719040264, 9780719040269 |
| 页数 | 306页 |
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