Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 946
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-02-03
Total Pages: 867
ISBN-13: 3030408663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.
Author: F. Potter
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-09-27
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0230512720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade examines the disreputable aspects of the Gothic trade from its horrid bluebooks to the desperate hack writers who created the short tales of terror. From the Gothic publishers to the circulating libraries, this study explores the conflict between the canon and the twilight, and between the disreputable and the moral.
Author: Franz J. Potter
Publisher: Zittaw Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780975339596
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new collection of nine rare Gothic tales has been assembled to represent a wide range of adaptations, redactions, plagiarisms and condensations of Gothic motifs and characterisations in the 1820s and 1830s. From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, The Monster Made By Man illustrates the evolution of the Gothic genre and revisits what is most horrifying- the familiar.
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher:
Published: 1824
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780975339503
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This strongly moralistic and didactic tale narrates the seduction and murder of the innocent Josephine by the libertine Lord Albert. Written in 1812 by Sarah Wilkinson and published by Ann Lemoine, the chapbook is an adaptation of the ballad 'Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine' by Matthew Lewis which originally appeared in The Monk in 1796. The ballad relates the woeful tale of Imogine, who promises fidelity to Alonzo, but falls in love with a wealthy baron. Alonzo, who has perished in battle, comes to reclaim his 'bride' at her wedding, dragging her to hell for breaking her promise. Wilkinson's adaptation weaves a supernatural tale with didacticism creating a moralistic thriller.An excellent example of 'Trade' Gothic, Albert of Werdendorff illustrates the transformation and adaptation of the 'canonical' Gothic during the early nineteenth century.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-11-22
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Mysterious Spaniard by an anonymous author is about Chevalier Franval who must watch his sister and find out the identity and true motivations of the nameless Spaniard at the inn where he resides. Excerpt: "THE Chevalier Franval, and his sister Amarylla, were the only children of a French General of great reputation, who died at the beginning of the last century, at an elegant villa to which he had retired in the evening of his days, at the distance of a few leagues from the city of Paris. At the time of her father's death, Amarylla was receiving her education in the convent of St. Ann at Aurillac."