Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840Rictor Norton Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840 is an anthology of Gothic literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major practitioners (including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe) and many of their followers (including Clara Reeve, Charlotte Smith, Joanna Baillie, Charles Brockden Brown, Catherine Cuthbertson and Eliza Parsons), as well as contemporary reviews, private letters and diaries, chapbooks, and contemporary anecdotes about dramatic performances and the design of theatre sets. |
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Contents
The staircase at Horace Walpoles villa at Strawberry Hill 1774 | 3 |
1806 | 36 |
William Gilpins watercolour of Furness Abbey 1786 | 43 |
The Ladys Magazine for September 1795 | 56 |
Frontispiece to The Midnight Assassin 1797 | 71 |
James Gillrays caricature of ladies reading The Monk 1818 | 118 |
1812 | 152 |
1819 | 161 |
1820 | 166 |
4 | 175 |
1794 | 183 |
1798 | 197 |
1800 | 204 |
1820 | 216 |
5 | 224 |
1771 | 225 |
4 | 175 |
1794 | 183 |
1798 | 197 |
1816 | 205 |
370 | |
Frontispiece to The Midnight Groan 1808 148 | vi |
1816 | 27 |
1806 | 36 |
1820 | 41 |
5 | 95 |
1808 | 147 |
1818 | 157 |
1787 | 230 |
1790 | 233 |
1798 | 236 |
1796 | 240 |
1800 | 243 |
Frontispiece to Tales of Terror 1801 249 | 249 |
1807 | 250 |
1849 | 257 |
1804 | 269 |
Frontispiece to T J Horsley Curtiess Ancient Records 1801 309 | 309 |
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