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Gothic documents : a sourcebook, 1700-1820 / edited by E. J. Clery and Robert Miles.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000.Description: ix, 306p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780719040276
Subject(s): Summary: In the 1790s, Britain was struck by a reading revolution, a taste for terror fiction. How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? This book seeks to answer this and other questions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-302) and index.

In the 1790s, Britain was struck by a reading revolution, a taste for terror fiction. How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? This book seeks to answer this and other questions.

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