Gothic readings : the first wave, 1764-1840
Title:
Gothic readings : the first wave, 1764-1840
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edited by Rictor Norton.
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 2000.
Physical Description:
xiii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780718502164
9780718502171
Abstract:
Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840 is an anthology of Gothic literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major practitioners -- including Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Godwin, Mary Shelley, Charles Robert Maturin and Edgar Allan Poe -- and many of their followers, as well as contemporary reviews, private letters and diaries, chapbooks, and anecdotes about dramatic performances and the design of theatre sets.
The volume provides representative samples of the major genres: historical Gothic, the Radcliffe school of terror, the Lewis school of horror, tragic melodrama, comic parody, supernatural poetry and ballads, book reviews and literary criticism and anti-Gothic polemic. Also covered are the major Gothic issues such as the aesthetics of the sublime, religion and the supernatural and the influence of ancient Romance, 'hobgoblin machinery' (including vampires, spectres, orphans, the Inquisition, banditti, nuns, storms and ruined castles), and social and political themes. A general introduction reviews the major approaches to Gothic literature, and short introductions place individual selections in context. All the texts are based on first editions. The collection is suitable as a textbook for courses on the Gothic novel or on Romantic literature and will appeal to all Gothic enthusiasts. Book jacket.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages xii-xiii) and index.
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Contents:
1. Historical Gothic. The Castle of Otranto / Horace Walpole. Sir Bertrand, a Fragment / John Aikin. The Old English Baron / Clara Reeve. The Recess / Sophia Lee. Vathek / William Beckford. Review of White's / John of Gaunt. Mysteries Elucidated / Anna Maria Mackenzie. The Haunted Cavern / John Palmer. Hubert de Sevrac / Mary Robinson. The Novice of Saint Dominick / Sydney Owenson -- 2. The Radcliffe School of Terror. The Fate of Velina de Guidova. The Castle of Wolfenbach / Eliza Parsons. The Mysteries of Udolpho / Ann Radcliffe. Grasville Abbey / George Moore. Camilla / Fanny Burney. The Children of the Abbey / Regina Maria Roche. The Italian / Ann Radcliffe. The Orphan of the Rhine / Eleanor Sleath. Wieland / Charles Brockden Brown. Romance of the Pyrenees / Catherine Cuthbertson. Secrets of the Castle / David Carey. Manfrone / Mary Anne Radcliffe. Rookwood / William Harrison Ainsworth. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' / Edgar Allan Poe -- 3. The 'German' School of Horror. The Necromancer / Peter Teuthold. The Adventures of Caleb Williams / William Godwin. The Monk / Matthew Gregory Lewis. Horrid Mysteries / Peter Will. The Midnight Bell / Francis Lathom. Koenigsmark the Robber / Victor Jules Sarret. Zofloya / Charlotte Dacre. The Midnight / Groan. Tales of the Dead / Sarah Brown Utterson. Frankenstein / Mary Shelley. The Vampyre / John Polidori. Melmoth the Wanderer / Charles Robert Maturin. 'The Adventure of the German Student' / Washington Irving -- 4. Drama. The Mysterious Mother / Horace Walpole. Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons / James Boaden. 'A Ghostly Performance' / James Boaden. Review of Boaden's The Italian Monk. The Castle Spectre / Matthew Gregory Lewis. 'Reminiscences of M.G. Lewis' / Michael Kelly. De Monfort: A Tragedy / Joanna Baillie. 'On the Absurdities of the Modern Stage' 'Academicus'. 'A Performance of Julia and Agnes' / Mary Russell Mitford. Bertram / Charles Robert Maturin. 'On "German" Drama' / Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Vampire / James Robinson Planche -- 5. Poetry. The Minstrel / James Beattie. 'Written on the Sea Shore' / Charlotte Smith. The Emigrants / Charlotte Smith. 'Invocation to Horror' / Hannah Cowley. 'Superstition. An Ode' / Ann Radcliffe. 'To the Visions of Fancy' / Ann Radcliffe. 'Night' / Ann Radcliffe. 'To the River Dove' / Ann Radcliffe. 'Ode to Superstition' / Nathan Drake. 'Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine' / Matthew Gregory Lewis. 'The Mad Monk' / Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tales of Terror / Matthew Gregory Lewis. Review of Lewis's Tales of Wonder. 'Ballad' / Percy Bysshe Shelley. 'The Vampyre' / John Stagg. 'Annabel Lee' / Edgar Allan Poe -- 6. Parody. Azemia / William Beckford. Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen. 'The Scribbler' / Mary Alcock. 'A Village Circulating Library' / Charles Dibdin. 'To Make a Novel" The Age; A Poem. The Heroine / Eaton Stannard Barrett -- 7. Theory and Criticism. 'On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror' / Anna Laetitia Aikin. 'Illustrations on Sublimity' / James Beattie. The Banished Man / Charlotte Smith. Review of Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho. The Mysterious Warning / Eliza Parsons. The Pursuits of Literature / Thomas James Mathias. Review of Lewis's The Monk / Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 'The Terrorist System of Novel-Writing'. 'On the Titles of Modern Novels'. 'Vindication of The Monk'. Ancient Records / T.J. Horsley Curties. 'Novels and Romances' 'Rimelli'. 'On the Supernatural in Poetry' / Ann Radcliffe. Flowers of Literature / F. Prevost and F. Blagdon. Review of Maturin's Fatal Revenge / Walter Scott. Walpole's Castle of Otranto / Walter Scott. 'The Preternatural in Works of Fiction'. 'William Godwin's Novels' / William Hazlitt. Review of Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer. 'Monk Lewis and His Coterie' / David Macbeth Moir -- 8. Readers' Responses. Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. Maria Edgeworth. Joseph Ritson. Henry Francis Cary. Anna Seward. Thomas Green. Mary Hartley. Elizabeth Carter. Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Thomas Medwin. Charles Knight. Henry Crabb Robinson. Mary Russell Mitford. Charles Bucke. William Makepeace Thackeray. Cyrus Redding. Charlotte Bronte.
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1700-1899