E. J. Clery, Clery E. J.

The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762 1800

Herausgeber: Butler, Marilyn

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Literary and historical study of supernatural or Gothic fiction of the Romantic period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521664585
• ISBN-10: 0521664586
• Artikelnr.: 22363982

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Techniques of Ghost-Seeing: 1. The case of the Cock Lane ghost
2. Producing enthusiastic terror
Part II. The Business of Romance: 3. The advantages of history
4. Back to the future
5. The value of the supernatural in a commercial society
Part III. The Strange Luxury of Artificial Terror: 6. Women, luxury and the sublime
7. The supernatural explained
8. Like a heroine
Part IV. Magico-Political Tales: 9. The terrorist system
10. Conspiracy, subversion, supernaturalism
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index.