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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Fresh to that soil thou turn'st , whose every vale Shall prompt the poet and his
song demand : To thee thy copious subjects ne'er shall fail ; Thou need'st but
take the pencil to thy hand , And paint what all believe who own thy genial land .
Fresh to that soil thou turn'st , whose every vale Shall prompt the poet and his
song demand : To thee thy copious subjects ne'er shall fail ; Thou need'st but
take the pencil to thy hand , And paint what all believe who own thy genial land .
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Antistrophe Thou who such weary lengths hast passed , Where wilt thou rest ,
mad nymph , at last ? Say , wilt thou shroud in haunted cell , Where gloomy Rape
and Murder dwell ? Or in some hollowed seat , ' Gainst which the big waves beat
...
Antistrophe Thou who such weary lengths hast passed , Where wilt thou rest ,
mad nymph , at last ? Say , wilt thou shroud in haunted cell , Where gloomy Rape
and Murder dwell ? Or in some hollowed seat , ' Gainst which the big waves beat
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Stern Genius , hear from thy retreat On some old sepulchre's moss - canker'd seat
, Beneath the Abbey's ivied wall That trembles o'er its shade ; There wrapt in
midnight gloom , alone , Thou lovest to lie and hear The roar of waters near , And
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Stern Genius , hear from thy retreat On some old sepulchre's moss - canker'd seat
, Beneath the Abbey's ivied wall That trembles o'er its shade ; There wrapt in
midnight gloom , alone , Thou lovest to lie and hear The roar of waters near , And
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| 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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