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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... heroines The Mysteries of Udolpho ; illustrations of Mrs. Radcliffe's methods ; The Italian ; villains ; her historical accuracy and " unexplained " spectre in Gaston de Blondeville ; her reading ; style ; descriptions of scenery ...
... heroines The Mysteries of Udolpho ; illustrations of Mrs. Radcliffe's methods ; The Italian ; villains ; her historical accuracy and " unexplained " spectre in Gaston de Blondeville ; her reading ; style ; descriptions of scenery ...
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... Heroine ; Peacock's Nightmare Abbey ; his praise of C. B. Brown in Gryll Grange ; The Mystery of the Abbey , and its misleading title ; Crabbe's satire in Belinda Waters and The Preceptor Husband ; his ironical attack on the senti ...
... Heroine ; Peacock's Nightmare Abbey ; his praise of C. B. Brown in Gryll Grange ; The Mystery of the Abbey , and its misleading title ; Crabbe's satire in Belinda Waters and The Preceptor Husband ; his ironical attack on the senti ...
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... heroine of the novel of terror , at the end of a long gallery , scarce within hearing of any other inhabited part of the house . " 2 The scene in Count Fathom , in which Renaldo , at midnight , visits , as he thinks , the tomb of ...
... heroine of the novel of terror , at the end of a long gallery , scarce within hearing of any other inhabited part of the house . " 2 The scene in Count Fathom , in which Renaldo , at midnight , visits , as he thinks , the tomb of ...
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... heroine , wandering disconsolately by night in the castle vaults - a place of refuge first rendered fashionable by Isabella in The Castle of Otranto - faints with horror , thinking that she beholds her husband's ghost , but soon ...
... heroine , wandering disconsolately by night in the castle vaults - a place of refuge first rendered fashionable by Isabella in The Castle of Otranto - faints with horror , thinking that she beholds her husband's ghost , but soon ...
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... heroine who plays the lute , thunder- storms , banditti and even an escape in a coffin - items which may well have attracted the notice of Mrs. Rad- cliffe , whose first novel , The Castles of Athlin and Dun- bayne , 2 appeared in 1789 ...
... heroine who plays the lute , thunder- storms , banditti and even an escape in a coffin - items which may well have attracted the notice of Mrs. Rad- cliffe , whose first novel , The Castles of Athlin and Dun- bayne , 2 appeared in 1789 ...
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