The rise of supernatural fiction, 1762-1800
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The rise of supernatural fiction, 1762-1800
（Cambridge studies in romanticism, 12）
Cambridge University Press, 1999, c1995
1st pbk. ed
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First published 1995
Bibliography: p. 206-217
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. Techniques of Ghost-Seeing: 1. The case of the Cock Lane ghost
- 2. Producing enthusiastic terror
- Part II. The Business of Romance: 3. The advantages of history
- 4. Back to the future
- 5. The value of the supernatural in a commercial society
- Part III. The Strange Luxury of Artificial Terror: 6. Women, luxury and the sublime
- 7. The supernatural explained
- 8. Like a heroine
- Part IV. Magico-Political Tales: 9. The terrorist system
- 10. Conspiracy, subversion, supernaturalism
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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