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Late Victorian Gothic tales
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ISBN: 1281346551 9786611346553 019151702X 1435617762 9780191517020 9780192804808 0192804804 6611346554 0192804804 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890's, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era. The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it spoke to the anxieties of the moment. - ;'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an hour, it brought a thousand fantastic

Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other tales
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ISBN: 128076287X 019151733X 142949204X 9780191517334 9786610762873 6610762872 0192805975 0191920541 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.

The Gothic novel, 1790-1830 : plot summaries and index to motifs
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ISBN: 9780813164793 0813164796 0813113970 9780813113975 0813155134 9780813155135 1322600988 0813186684 9780813186689 Year: 1981 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,

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A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, and popular culture, this work contains summaries of more than two hundred novels, reputed to be Gothic, published in English between 1790 and 1830. Also included are indexes of titles and characters and an extensive index of characteristic objects, motifs, and themes that recur in the novels -- such as corpses, bloody and otherwise, dungeons, secret passageways, filicide, fratricide, infanticide, matricide, patricide, and suicide.The novels described, including those by s

Schauerroman und Deismus.
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ISBN: 3261025301 Year: 1978 Volume: Bd. 64 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

The gothic sublime
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ISBN: 9780791417485 0791417484 Year: 1994 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

Approaches to teaching Gothic fiction : the British and American traditions
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ISBN: 0873529065 0873529073 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Modern language association of America,


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Mrs Gaskell's tales of mystery and horror
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ISBN: 0575024720 Year: 1978 Publisher: London Gollancz


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Great British tales of terror : gothic stories of horror & romance, 1765-1840.
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ISBN: 057501038X Year: 1972 Publisher: London, : v. Gollancz,


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Dracula : the vampire and the critics.
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ISBN: 0835718891 9780835718899 Year: 1988 Volume: 19 Publisher: Ann Arbor Umi research press

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