Critical discourses of the fantastic, 1712-1831 / David Sandner.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Sandner, David, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The fairy way of writing
  • 2. Interlocked definitions : the fantastic, the sublime, the uncanny
  • 3. The sublime and the fantastic : Joseph Addison, Longinus, Edmund Burke
  • 4. Romantic wildness and fantastic modernity in anti-apparition writings, the ballad controversy, and romance criticism
  • 5. The fantastic and the fabulous past : Richard Hurd and James Beattie
  • 6. Gothick pasts and gothick futures : Horace Walpole and Mary Shelley
  • 7. "This wild strain of imagination" : Samuel Johnson and John Hawkesworth on wonder
  • 8. Fairy unexplained in Ann Radcliffe's The mysteries of Udolpho
  • 9. Supernatural modernity in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet and James Hogg's The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner
  • 10. The floating corpse of fairyland : William Wordsworth and "Fable's dark abyss"
  • 11. On "two faults" in "a work of such pure imagination" : Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Anna Letitia Barbauld on The rime of the ancient mariner
  • 12. "Faery lands forlorn" : John Keats' perilous realm of faery.