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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第103页
... and it signifies nothing at all to the purpose whether the danger is real or
imaginary ; and it is as plain , too , that the soul never takes the alarm from
anything so soon as it does from the senses , especially those two noble ones of
the eye and ...
... and it signifies nothing at all to the purpose whether the danger is real or
imaginary ; and it is as plain , too , that the soul never takes the alarm from
anything so soon as it does from the senses , especially those two noble ones of
the eye and ...
第140页
My soul within me sinks dismay ' d ! My pity , hapless man ! was thine , But oh , I
could not , durst not give thee aid ! Illusions fly ! the peaceful power Of silence
reigns o ' er hills , o ' er dale , and bower : An awful stillness that my soul affrights
...
My soul within me sinks dismay ' d ! My pity , hapless man ! was thine , But oh , I
could not , durst not give thee aid ! Illusions fly ! the peaceful power Of silence
reigns o ' er hills , o ' er dale , and bower : An awful stillness that my soul affrights
...
第272页
As such , it is not surprising that the Quarterly did not warm to romances '
representing those struggles of passion when the soul trembles on the verge of
the unlawful and the unhallowed ' . Source : Charles R . Maturin , The Milesian
Chief ...
As such , it is not surprising that the Quarterly did not warm to romances '
representing those struggles of passion when the soul trembles on the verge of
the unlawful and the unhallowed ' . Source : Charles R . Maturin , The Milesian
Chief ...
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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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