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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Sources Gothic revival (Literature) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gothic documents. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000 (OCoLC)606387518 |
Named Person: | Anthologie; Englisch |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
E J Clery; Robert Miles |
ISBN: | 0719040264 9780719040269 0719040272 9780719040276 |
OCLC Number: | 42621553 |
Description: | ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Supernaturalism : religion, folklore, Shakespeare -- Gothic origins -- The Gothic aesthetic : imagination, originality, terror -- Anti-Gothic -- Gothic and revolution -- Gothic renovations. |
Responsibility: | edited by E.J. Clery and Robert Miles. |
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Abstract:
In the 1790s, Britain was struck by a reading revolution, a taste for terror fiction that seemed to know no bounds. How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? "Gothic Documents" seeks to answer this and other questions.
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