Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840 is an anthology of Gothic literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major practitioners (including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe) and many of their followers (including Clara Reeve, Charlotte Smith, Joanna Baillie, Charles Brockden Brown, Catherine Cuthbertson and Eliza Parsons), as well as contemporary reviews, private letters and diaries, chapbooks, and contemporary anecdotes about dramatic performances and the design of theatre sets. |
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Contents
Historical Gothic | 1 |
Sir Bertrand a Fragment John Aikin | 7 |
The Recess Sophia Lee | 13 |
Review of Whites John of Gaunt | 22 |
The Haunted Cavern John Palmer | 30 |
The Novice of Saint Dominick Sydney Owenson | 36 |
The Fate of Velina de Guidova | 44 |
Frontispiece to The Midnight Assassin 1797 | 71 |
Flowers of Literature Rev F Prevost and F Blagdon | 316 |
Walpoles Castle of Otranto Sir Walter Scott | 323 |
William Godwins Novels William Hazlitt | 329 |
Monk Lewis and His Coterie David Macbeth Moir | 335 |
Early Nineteenth Century | 353 |
Mary Russell Mitford | 359 |
Charles Bucke | 361 |
Charlotte Brontë | 367 |
James Gillrays caricature of ladies reading The Monk 1818 | 118 |
Zofloya Charlotte Dacre | 143 |
Tales of the Dead Sarah Brown Utterson trans | 152 |
The Vampyre John Polidori | 161 |
The Adventure of the German Student Washington Irving | 170 |
The Mysterious Mother Horace Walpole | 176 |
A Ghostly Performance James Boaden | 183 |
Reminiscences of M G Lewis Michael Kelly | 196 |
On the Absurdities of the Modern Stage Academicus | 204 |
On German Drama Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 213 |
Poetry | 224 |
Invocation to Horror Hannah Cowley | 230 |
To the River Dove Ann Radcliffe | 236 |
The Mad Monk Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 243 |
Ballad Percy Bysshe Shelley | 250 |
Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe | 257 |
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen | 263 |
A Village Circulating Library Charles Dibdin | 269 |
On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror | 281 |
Review of Radcliffes Mysteries of Udolpho | 289 |
Review of Lewiss The Monk Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 295 |
On the Titles of Modern Novels | 303 |
Novels and Romances Rimelli | 309 |
The Castle of Wolfenbach Eliza Parsons 46 | iii |
Frontispiece to The Midnight Groan 1808 148 | vi |
Zofloya Charlotte Dacre 143 | 143 |
Tales of the Dead Sarah Brown Utterson trans 152 | 152 |
The Vampyre John Polidori 161 | 161 |
The Adventure of the German Student Washington Irving 170 | 170 |
The Mysterious Mother Horace Walpole 176 | 176 |
A Ghostly Performance James Boaden 183 | 183 |
Reminiscences of M G Lewis Michael Kelly 196 | 196 |
On the Absurdities of the Modern Stage Academicus 204 | 204 |
On German Drama Samuel Taylor Coleridge 213 | 213 |
Poetry 224 | 224 |
Invocation to Horror Hannah Cowley 230 | 230 |
To the River Dove Ann Radcliffe 236 | 236 |
The Mad Monk Samuel Taylor Coleridge 243 | 243 |
Frontispiece to Tales of Terror 1801 249 | 249 |
Ballad Percy Bysshe Shelley 250 | 250 |
Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe 257 | 257 |
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 263 | 263 |
A Village Circulating Library Charles Dibdin 269 | 269 |
Frontispiece to T J Horsley Curtiess Ancient Records 1801 309 | 309 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840 Continuum Collection Continuum Studies In Gothic Writing |
| Editor | Rictor Norton |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | A&C Black, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0826485855, 9780826485854 |
| Length | 369 pages |
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