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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At the same Time I think a Person who is thus terrify ' d with the Imagination of
Ghosts and Spectres much more ... Mankind , I should to the Relations of
particular Persons who are now living , and whom I cannot distrust in other
Matters of Fact .
At the same Time I think a Person who is thus terrify ' d with the Imagination of
Ghosts and Spectres much more ... Mankind , I should to the Relations of
particular Persons who are now living , and whom I cannot distrust in other
Matters of Fact .
第105页
There is a kind of Writing , wherein the Poet quite loses sight of Nature , and
entertains his Reader ' s Imagination with the Characters and Actions of such
Persons as have many of them no Existence , but what he bestows on them .
Such are ...
There is a kind of Writing , wherein the Poet quite loses sight of Nature , and
entertains his Reader ' s Imagination with the Characters and Actions of such
Persons as have many of them no Existence , but what he bestows on them .
Such are ...
第106页
There is something so wild and yet so solemn in the Speeches of his Ghosts ,
Fairies , Witches , and the like Imaginary Persons , that we cannot forbear
thinking them natural , tho ' we have no Rule by which to judge of them , and must
confess ...
There is something so wild and yet so solemn in the Speeches of his Ghosts ,
Fairies , Witches , and the like Imaginary Persons , that we cannot forbear
thinking them natural , tho ' we have no Rule by which to judge of them , and must
confess ...
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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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