Description
In the 1790s, while across the Channel a political revolution raged, Britain was struck by a reading revolution, a taste for terror fiction that seemed to know no bounds. Ann Radcliffe and "Monk" Lewis were only the most celebrated of a host of writers purveying a new brand of "Gothic" literature. How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? This is a landmark in the study of Gothic nowhere else is the historical location of Gothic more richly or vividly illustrated.
Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
320 pages
Language
English
Published
Sep 2, 2000
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Editions
2 editions
ISBN-10
0719040264
ISBN-13
9780719040269