[Free and download] The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
❀ E. J. Clery ❀
| #3110609 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1999-08-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.55 x5.98l,.85 | File Name: 0521664586 | 240 pages |
||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| History of the Gothic|By A Customer|This book is an excellent read for anyone with an interest in the history or scholarship the Gothic or "horrible" literature in general. Its focus on the shift in English society to a more luxury and consumer-driven economy, during the time when supernatural literature developed as a genre, becomes a little dense at times, if that isn't on||"A careful, detailed study of the transformation and persistence of the supernatural across the period into an age of skepticism and empiricism....Clery draws a great deal of evidence, from the theater, from drama criticism, and from contemporary accounts of
A genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment. This book questions the historical reasons for its growing popularity in the late eighteenth century. Beginning with the notorious case of the Cock Lane ghost, a performing poltergeist who became a major attraction in London in 1762, and with Garrick's spellbinding and paradigmatic performance as the ghost-seeing Hamlet, it moves on to look at the Gothic novels of Horace ...
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