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Jane Austen : Northanger abbey and Persuasion
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ISBN: 0333192087 0333192079 9780333192078 9780333192085 Year: 1976 Publisher: London: MacMillan,

De romantische griezelroman (Gothic novel), een merkwaardig rand-verschijnsel in de literatuur
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ISBN: 9053507833 9789053507834 Year: 1998 Volume: 11 Publisher: Leuven: Garant,

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De opzet van dit essay is een dieper inzicht te krijgen in de 'griezelroman', een vaak denegrerend bekeken verhaalgenre. In het sociaal-culturele klimaat van de beginnende romantiek in de tweede helft van de 18e eeuwontstaat een merkwaardige roman( ce )vorm die, als reactie op rationeel-realistische trends in de literatuur van de Verlichting, oog heeft voor het onbestemde dat de mens obsedeert in zijn hang naar het 'bovennatuurlijke' : geesten, stemmen, gruweldaden, 'unheimliche' plaatsen zoals ruïnes van oude kastelen en kloosters, 'woeste hoogten', dichte wouden, ...Deze romantische reactie leidde tot een rage in de verhalende literatuur die, als succesformule, het genre tot 'triviaalliteratuur' heeft gedegradeerd. Hedendaags onderzoek heeft gewezen op de diepmenselijke angsten en wensen die de kern van het genre uitmaken. Figuren als het monster van Frankenstein en Dracula fascineren.

Alien nation : nineteenth-century gothic fictions and English nationality
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ISBN: 0812233514 9780812233513 1512818585 Year: 1997 Volume: *1 Publisher: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press

Ann Radcliffe et le fantastique: : essai de psychobiographie
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ISBN: 2700700422 9782700700428 Year: 1976 Publisher: Paris: Aubier,

The rise of supernatural fiction, 1762-1800
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ISBN: 052145316X 0521664586 0511518994 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge New York Melbourne Cambridge University Press

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A genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment. This book charts the troubled entry of the supernatural into fiction, and questions the historical reasons for its growing popularity in the late eighteenth century. Beginning with the notorious case of the Cock Lane ghost, a performing poltergeist who became a major attraction in London in 1762, and with Garrick's spellbinding and paradigmatic performance as the ghost-seeing Hamlet, it moves on to look at the Gothic novels of Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, and others, in unexpected new lights. The central thesis concerns the connection between fictions of the supernatural and the growth of consumerism: not only are ghost stories successful commodities in the rapidly commercialising book market, they are also considered here as reflections on the disruptive effects of this socio-economic transformation.

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English fiction --- Ghost stories, English --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales, English --- Literature and society --- Literature publishing --- Supernatural in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Bovennatuurlijke in de literatuur --- Surnaturel dans la litterature --- -Ghost stories, English --- -Gothic revival (Literature) --- -Supernatural in literature --- -Literature publishing --- -Literary publishing --- English ghost stories --- English horror tales --- -Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- -82-312.9 Fantastische literatuur --- Literary publishing --- 820 "17" --- 82-312.9 --- -English fiction --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- 82-312.9 Fantastische literatuur --- Fantastische literatuur --- 820 "17" Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- History and criticism --- -History --- -Publishing --- Social aspects --- Supernatural in literature --- Publishers and publishing --- Literary movements --- Revival movements (Art) --- Romanticism --- Publishing --- Sociology of literature --- Fiction --- Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1700-1799 --- Horror tales [English ] --- 18th century --- Great Britain --- Ghost stories [English ] --- Gothic revival (Literature) - Great Britain - History - 18th century. --- Ghost stories, English - History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities

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