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Acknowledgements | |
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Note on the text | |
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Introduction | |
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Supernaturalism: religion, folklore, Shakespeare | |
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A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal (1706) | |
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The Spectator, Nos. 12 and 110 (1711) | |
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'A Night Piece on Death' (1721) | |
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'William and Margaret' (1724) | |
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'Political Vampyres' (1732) | |
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On the Cock Lane ghost (1762) | |
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'Narrative drawn up by Mr John Wesley' (1784) | |
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The Example of Shakespeare | |
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The Entertainer (1754) | |
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'On the Praeternatural Beings' (1769) | |
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'An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland' (1749-50) | |
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Gothic origins | |
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Germania (trans. 1777) | |
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Liberty (1734-6) | |
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Common Sense (1739) | |
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'Spirit of the Laws' (trans. 1750) | |
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The Fool of Quality (1765) | |
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Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762) | |
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'The History of English Poetry' (1778) | |
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A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, The Son of Fingal (1763) | |
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The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1770-4) | |
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On Fable and Romance (1783) | |
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A Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths (1787) | |
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'The Gothic Mind' and 'Gothic Literature and Art' (1818) | |
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The Gothic aesthetic: imagination, originality, terror | |
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'Of Heroique Playes' (1670) | |
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The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (1704) | |
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The Spectator, No. 419 (1712) | |
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Garrick's performance of the ghost scenes in Hamlet (1776) | |
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'Ode to Fear' (1746) | |
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) | |
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Originality | |
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Conjectures on Original Composition (1759) | |
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Preface to The Castle of Otranto (1765) | |
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An Essay on Original Genius (1767) | |
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'On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment' (1773) | |
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Preface to The Old English Baron (1778) | |
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'Account of the German theatre' (1790) | |
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Odes and the Taste for Terror | |
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'To Horror' (1791) | |
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'Ode to Terror' (1792) | |
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'To Horror' (1804) | |
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'Ode to H. Fuseli, Esq., R.A., On Seeing Engravings from his Designs' (1807) | |
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Burger, Lenore (1796) | |
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'On Gothic Superstition' and 'On Objects of Terror' (1798) | |
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'On the Supernatural in Poetry' (1826) | |
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Anti-Gothic | |
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Ars Poetica (trans. 1709) | |
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Novel Versus Romance | |
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The Rambler, No. 4 (1750) | |
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The Progress of Romance, Through Times, Countries, and Manners (1785) | |
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Tampering with History: The Response to Sophia Lee's the Recess (1785) | |
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'Advertisement' to The Recess (1785) | |
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Review of The Recess (1786) | |
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Plexippus (1790) | |
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'Terrorist Novel Writing' (1798) | |
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The Monk Affair | |
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Review of The Monk (1797) | |
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The Pursuits of Literature (1798) | |
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'A Friend to Genius', 'An Apology for The Monk' (1797) | |
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Gothic Drama | |
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Reviews of Harriet Lee, The Mysterious Marriage (1798) | |
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Postscript to The Castle Spectre (1798) | |
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'Academicus', 'On the Absurdities of the Modern Stage' (1800) | |
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Parodies | |
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Azemia (1797) | |
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The Heroine (1813) | |
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'On the Good Effects of Bad Novels' (1798) | |
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'On Novels and Romances' (1802) | |
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'Rimelli', 'Novels and Romances' (1802) | |
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The History of Fiction (1814) | |
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Gothic and revolution | |
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'Demophilius', The Genuine Principles of the Ancient Saxons, or English Constitution (1776) | |
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Report of the Committee of the Revolution Society (1789) | |
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Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) | |
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A Sicilian Romance (1790) | |
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A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) | |
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The Rights of Man (1790-2) | |
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Letters on the Revolution in France (1791) | |
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'Of the Nature of Government, and the Rights of Men and of Kings' (1791) | |
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Argument on the French Revolution (1794) | |
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Translator's Preface to Karl Grosse, Horrid Mysteries (1796) | |
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The Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement (1798) | |
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Review of W. H. Ireland, Rimualdo (1801) | |
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Gothic renovations | |
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William Godwin on Romance and Novel | |
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'On History and Romance' (1797) | |
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Preface to Fleetwood (1805) | |
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Morality of Fiction (1805) | |
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Review of Walter Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) | |
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'On the Origin and Progress of Novel Writing' (1810) | |
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Preface to The Milesian Chief (1812) | |
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'Chapter 1: Introductory,' Waverley (1814) | |
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Biographia Literaria (1817) | |
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The Supernaturalism of Everyday Life | |
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'Witches and Other Night Fears' (1821) | |
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'On Ghosts' (1824) | |
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'On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition' (1827) | |
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'The Age of Romance' (1837) | |
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'The Historical Romance' (1845) | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |