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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But now let us see how those two poets did , by virtue of their ideas , bring even
absent terrible objects within the reach of those two noble senses . First then , to
bring an absent terrible object before our sight , they drew an image or picture of
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But now let us see how those two poets did , by virtue of their ideas , bring even
absent terrible objects within the reach of those two noble senses . First then , to
bring an absent terrible object before our sight , they drew an image or picture of
...
第113页
Of the SUBLIME ( I . vii ) Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain ,
and danger , that is to say , whatever is in any sort terrible , or is conversant about
terrible objects , or operates in a manner analogous to terror , is a source of the ...
Of the SUBLIME ( I . vii ) Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain ,
and danger , that is to say , whatever is in any sort terrible , or is conversant about
terrible objects , or operates in a manner analogous to terror , is a source of the ...
第119页
But whilst we contemplate so vast an object , under the arm , as it were , of
almighty power , and invested upon every side with omnipresence , we shrink
into the minuteness of our own nature , and are , in a manner , annihilated before
him .
But whilst we contemplate so vast an object , under the arm , as it were , of
almighty power , and invested upon every side with omnipresence , we shrink
into the minuteness of our own nature , and are , in a manner , annihilated before
him .
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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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