The presentation of emotion in the English Gothic novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with particular reference to Ann Radcliffe's 'Mysteries of Udolpho', M.G. Lewis's 'Monk', Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', C.R. Maturin's 'Melmoth the Wanderer', Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre', and works by the minor Minerva Press novelists Regina Maria Roche and Mary Anne Radcliffe
This thesis is an examination of values and craftsmanship in the Gothic novel, and sets out to demonstrate that the changes which occurred between 1790 and 1820 constituted a series of experimental attempts to present new areas of emotional and imaginative awareness in fiction. Though it is not a hi...
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Royal Holloway, University of London
1969
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