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Gothic documents : a sourcebook, 1700-1820

In the 1790s, Britain was struck by a reading revolution, a taste for terror fiction. How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? This book seeks to answer this and other questions
Print Book, English, 2000
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, New York, 2000