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The first serious study of the Gothic: Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis, Maturin and Mary Shelley traced from the Castle of Otranto to the Brontës, with the Minerva Press hacks given their due. Edith Birkhead lectured at Bristol and published this in 1921, when the whole genre was considered beneath notice — every academic history of horror since stands on it. Fifty-nine plates, from Piero della Francesca to Odilon Redon, gather castles, witches, moonlight and ruined abbeys — the visual Gothic that haunted the novels.
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter I. Introductory
- Chapter II. The Beginnings of Gothic Romance
- Chapter III. “The Novel of Suspense.” Mrs. Radcliffe
- Chapter IV. The Novel of Terror. Lewis and Maturin
- Chapter V. The Oriental Tale of Terror. Beckford
- Chapter VI. Godwin and the Rosicrucian Novel
- Chapter VII. Satires on the Novel of Terror
- Chapter VIII. Scott and the Novel of Terror
- Chapter IX. Later Developments of the Tale of Terror
- Chapter X. Short Tales of Terror
- Chapter XI. American Tales of Terror
- Chapter XII. Conclusion
- About the Author
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