The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic RomanceConstable Limited, 1921 - 241 A history of the 'thriller' from myth and folk-tale through Walpole and Mrs Radcliffe to Poe and Le Fanu. |
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... Scott's review of Maturin's Montorio ; the vogue of the tale of terror between Lewis and Maturin ; Miss Sarah Wilkinson ; the personality of Charles Robert Maturin ; his literary career ; the complicated plot of The Family of Montorio ...
... Scott's review of Maturin's Montorio ; the vogue of the tale of terror between Lewis and Maturin ; Miss Sarah Wilkinson ; the personality of Charles Robert Maturin ; his literary career ; the complicated plot of The Family of Montorio ...
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... SCOTT AND THE NOVEL OF TERROR - 128-144 Scott's review of fashionable fiction in the Preface to Waverley ; his early attempts at Gothic story in Thomas the Rhymer and The Lord of Ennerdale ; his enthusiasm for Bürger's Lenore and for ...
... SCOTT AND THE NOVEL OF TERROR - 128-144 Scott's review of fashionable fiction in the Preface to Waverley ; his early attempts at Gothic story in Thomas the Rhymer and The Lord of Ennerdale ; his enthusiasm for Bürger's Lenore and for ...
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... Scott and Lewis gloried in the gruesome details and spirited rhythm of the ballad , and in their supernatural poems wish to startle and terrify , not to awe , their readers . Those who revel in phos- phorescent lights and in the rattle ...
... Scott and Lewis gloried in the gruesome details and spirited rhythm of the ballad , and in their supernatural poems wish to startle and terrify , not to awe , their readers . Those who revel in phos- phorescent lights and in the rattle ...
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... Scott and " Monk " Lewis , may be traced far beyond Sinclair's Satan's Invisible World Discovered ( 1685 ) , Bovet's Pandemonium or the Devil's Cloyster Opened ( 1683 ) , or Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft ( 1584 ) to Ulysses ...
... Scott and " Monk " Lewis , may be traced far beyond Sinclair's Satan's Invisible World Discovered ( 1685 ) , Bovet's Pandemonium or the Devil's Cloyster Opened ( 1683 ) , or Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft ( 1584 ) to Ulysses ...
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... Scott as well as on Mrs. Rad- cliffe and her school . The Castle of Otranto is significant , not because of its intrinsic merit , but because of its power in shaping the destiny of the novel . The outline of the plot is worth recording ...
... Scott as well as on Mrs. Rad- cliffe and her school . The Castle of Otranto is significant , not because of its intrinsic merit , but because of its power in shaping the destiny of the novel . The outline of the plot is worth recording ...
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