Author: Mrs. Anne KERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Adeline St. Julian; Or, The Midnight Hour. A Novel
Author: Mrs. Anne KERAdeline St. Julian
Author: Anne KerThe Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Antijacobin Review, True Churchman's Magazine
Author: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine
Author: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine Or Monthly Political and Literary Censor
Author: Mistress of Udolpho
Author: Rictor NortonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1847142699
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This is the biography of the Gothic novelist, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), author of "The Mysteries of Udolpho", the world's first "best seller". The text clarifies Radcliffe's emergence from a Dissenting Unitarian, rather than a conventional Anglican, background. This places Radcliffe within the circle of other women writers nurtured in radical Dissenting backgrounds (such as Wollstonecraft, Hays, Inchbauld and Barbauld). Radcliffe's childhood and family background are documented and the rumours of her madness and reclusiveness investigated leading to an evaluation of the resons for her probable mental breakdown. The text constitutes a "cultural history" of a writing woman, demonstrating her place within radical culture, literary tradition and aesthetic discourse, and examining her role in the rise of the professional woman writer. Her novels are analyzed mainly in the context of her biography and sources.
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Author: A Gothic Bibliography
Author: Montague SummersPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 17971830
Author: Franz J. PotterPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786836718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This study breaks new ground surveying the origins of the Gothic chapbook, its publishers and authors, in order to establish conclusively the impact these pamphlets had on the development of the Gothic genre. Considered the illegitimate offspring of the Gothic novel, the lowly chapbook flooded the market in the late eighteenth century, creating a separate and distinct secondary market for tales of terror. The trade was driven by a handful of individuals who were booksellers and dealers, circulating library proprietors, stationers, and small publishers – what they produced were more than four hundred chapbooks, bluebooks and shilling shockers containing Gothic tales from magazines, redactions of popular novels, extractions of entire inset tales, and original tales of terror. This book responds to the urgent and pressing need to contextualise the Gothic chapbook in ascertaining a more concise and comprehensive view of the entire Gothic genre.