The Tale of Terror. Edith Birkhead
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Edith Birkhead
The Tale of Terror
A Study of the Gothic Romance
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664644008
Table of Contents
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 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.
PREFACE
The aim of this book is to give some account of the growth of supernatural fiction in English literature, beginning with the vogue of the Gothic Romance and Tale of Terror towards the close of the eighteenth century. The origin and development of the Gothic Romance are set forth in detail from the appearance of Walpole's Castle of Otranto in 1764 to the publication of Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer in 1820; and the survey of this phase of the novel is continued, in the later chapters, to modern times. One of these is devoted to the Tale of Terror in America, where in the hands of Hawthorne and Poe its treatment became a fine art. In the chapters dealing with the more recent forms of the tale of terror and wonder, the scope of the subject becomes so wide that it is impossible to attempt an exhaustive survey.
The present work is the outcome of studies begun during my tenure of the William Noble Fellowship in the University of Liverpool, 1916–18. It is a pleasure to express here my thanks to Professor R.H. Case and to Dr. John Sampson for valuable help and criticism at various stages of the work. Parts of the MS. have also been read by Professor C.H. Herford of the University of Manchester and by Professor Oliver Elton of the University of Liverpool. To Messrs. Constable's reader I am also indebted for several helpful suggestions.—E.B.
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL,
December, 1920.
CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTORY.
The antiquity of the tale of terror; the element of fear in myths, heroic legends, ballads and folk-tales; terror in the romances of the middle ages, in Elizabethan times and in the seventeenth century; the credulity of the age of reason; the renascence of terror and wonder in poetry; the "attempt to blend the marvellous of old story with the natural of modern novels." Pp. 1–15.
CHAPTER II - THE BEGINNINGS OF GOTHIC ROMANCE.
Walpole's admiration for Gothic art and his interest in the middle ages; the mediaeval revival at the close of the eighteenth century; The Castle of Otranto; Walpole's bequest to later romance-writers; Smollett's incidental anticipation of the methods of Gothic Romance; Clara Reeve's Old English Baron and her effort to bring her story "within the utmost verge of probability"; Mrs. Barbauld's Gothic fragment; Blake's Fair Elenor; the critical theories and Gothic experiments of Dr. Nathan Drake. Pp. 16–37.
CHAPTER III - "THE NOVEL OF SUSPENSE." MRS. RADCLIFFE.
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