{"product_id":"2940014396929","title":"THE TALE OF TERROR","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I - INTRODUCTORY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe antiquity of the tale of terror; the element of fear in\u003cbr\u003emyths, heroic legends, ballads and folk-tales; terror in the\u003cbr\u003eromances of the middle ages, in Elizabethan times and in the\u003cbr\u003eseventeenth century; the credulity of the age of reason; the\u003cbr\u003erenascence of terror and wonder in poetry; the \"attempt to blend\u003cbr\u003ethe marvellous of old story with the natural of modern novels.\"\u003cbr\u003ePp. 1-15.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II - THE BEGINNINGS OF GOTHIC ROMANCE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalpole's admiration for Gothic art and his interest in the\u003cbr\u003emiddle ages; the mediaeval revival at the close of the eighteenth\u003cbr\u003ecentury; _The Castle of Otranto_; Walpole's bequest to later\u003cbr\u003eromance-writers; Smollett's incidental anticipation of the\u003cbr\u003emethods of Gothic Romance; Clara Reeve's _Old English Baron_ and\u003cbr\u003eher effort to bring her story \"within the utmost verge of\u003cbr\u003eprobability\"; Mrs. Barbauld's Gothic fragment; Blake's _Fair\u003cbr\u003eElenor_; the critical theories and Gothic experiments of Dr.\u003cbr\u003eNathan Drake. Pp. 16-37.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III - \"THE NOVEL OF SUSPENSE.\" MRS. RADCLIFFE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe vogue of Mrs. Radcliffe; her tentative beginning in _The\u003cbr\u003eCastles of Athlin and Dunbayne_, and her gradual advance in skill\u003cbr\u003eand power; _The Sicilian Romance_ and her early experiments in\u003cbr\u003ethe \"explained\" supernatural; _The Romance of the Forest_, and\u003cbr\u003eher use of suspense; heroines: _The Mysteries of Udolpho_;\u003cbr\u003eillustrations of Mrs. Radcliffe's methods; _The Italian_;\u003cbr\u003evillains; her historical accuracy and \"unexplained\" spectre in\u003cbr\u003e_Gaston de Blondeville_; her reading; style; descriptions of\u003cbr\u003escenery; position in the history of the novel.\u003cbr\u003ePp. 38-62.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV - THE NOVEL OF TERROR. LEWIS AND MATURIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLewis's methods contrasted with those of Mrs. Radcliffe; his debt\u003cbr\u003eto German terror-mongers; _The Monk_; ballads; _The Bravo of\u003cbr\u003eVenice_; minor works and translations; Scott's review of\u003cbr\u003eMaturin's _Montorio_; the vogue of the tale of terror between\u003cbr\u003eLewis and Maturin; Miss Sarah Wilkinson; the personality of\u003cbr\u003eCharles Robert Maturin; his literary career; the complicated plot\u003cbr\u003eof _The Family of Montorio_; Maturin's debt to others; his\u003cbr\u003edistinguishing gifts revealed in _Montorio_; the influence of\u003cbr\u003e_Melmoth the Wanderer_ on French literature; a survey of\u003cbr\u003e_Melmoth_; Maturin's achievement as a novelist. Pp. 63-93.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V - THE ORIENTAL TALE OF TERROR. BECKFORD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Oriental story in France and England in the eighteenth\u003cbr\u003ecentury; Beckford's _Vathek_; Beckford's life and character; his\u003cbr\u003eliterary gifts; later Oriental tales. Pp. 94-99.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI - GODWIN AND THE ROSICRUCIAN NOVEL.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGodwin's mind and temper; the plan of _Caleb Williams_ as\u003cbr\u003edescribed by Godwin; his methods; the plot of _Caleb Williams_;\u003cbr\u003eits interest as a story; Godwin's limitations as a novelist; _St.\u003cbr\u003eLean_; its origin and purpose; outline of the story; the\u003cbr\u003echaracter of Bethlem Gabor; Godwin's treatment of the Rosicrucian\u003cbr\u003elegend; a parody of _St. Lean_; the supernatural in _Cloudesley_\u003cbr\u003eand in _Lives of the Necromancers_; Moore's _Epicurean_; Croly's\u003cbr\u003e_Salathiel_; Shelley's youthful enthusiasm for the tale of\u003cbr\u003eterror; _Zastrozzi_; its lack of originality; _St. Irvyne_;\u003cbr\u003etraces of Shelley's early reading in his poems. Pp. 100-127.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII - SATIRES ON THE NOVEL OF TERROR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Austen's raillery in _Northanger Abbey_; Barrett's mockery\u003cbr\u003ein _The Heroine_; Peacock's _Nightmare Abbey_; his praise of C.B.\u003cbr\u003eBrown in _Gryll Grange_; _The Mystery of the Abbey_, and its\u003cbr\u003emisleading title; Crabbe's satire in _Belinda Waters_ and _The\u003cbr\u003ePreceptor Husband_; his ironical attack on the sentimental\u003cbr\u003eheroine in _The Borough_; his appreciation of folktales; _Sir\u003cbr\u003eEustace Grey_. Pp.\u003cbr\u003e128-144.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII - SCOTT AND THE NOVEL OF TERROR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScott's review of fashionable fiction in the Preface to\u003cbr\u003e_Waverley_; his early attempts at Gothic story in _Thomas the\u003cbr\u003eRhymer_ and _The Lord of Ennerdale_; his enthusiasm for Bürger's\u003cbr\u003e_Lenore_ and for Lewis's ballads; his interest in demonology and\u003cbr\u003ewitchcraft; his attitude to the supernatural; his hints to the\u003cbr\u003ewriters of ghost-stories; his own experiments; Wandering Willie's\u003cbr\u003eTale, a masterpiece of supernatural horror; the use of the\u003cbr\u003esupernatural in the Waverley Novels; Scott, the supplanter of the\u003cbr\u003enovel of terror. Pp.\u003cbr\u003e145-156.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX - LATER DEVELOPMENTS OF THE TALE OF TERROR.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083748032752,"sku":"2940014396929","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014396929_p0.jpg?v=1763607628","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014396929","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}