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Ashgate Pub., Routledge
Language
English
Pages
191

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Critical discourses of the fantastic, 1712-1831
2011, Ashgate Pub., Routledge
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Table of Contents

Introduction: romanticism as the origin and end of the fantastic
The fairy way of writing
Interlocked definitions: the fantastic, the sublime, the uncanny
The sublime and the fantastic: Joseph Addison, Longinus, Edmund Burke
Romantic wildness and fantastic modernity in anti-apparition writings, the ballad
Controversy, and romance criticism
The fantastic and the fabulous past: Richard Hurd and James Beattie
Gothick pasts and gothick futures: Horace Walpole and Mary Shelley
"This wild strain of imagination": Samuel Johnson and John Hawkesworth on wonder
Fairy unexplained in Ann Radcliffe's the mysteries of Udolpho
Supernatural modernity in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet and James Hogg's The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner
The floating corpse of fairyland: William Wordsworth and Fable's dark abyss
On "two faults" in a "work of such pure imagination": Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Anna Letitia Barbauld on the rime of the ancient mariner
"Faery lands forlorn": John Keats' perilous realm of faery
Afterword: a typology of the fantastic: possession, fragmentation, dispossession and domestication
Appendix: a chronology of early critical sources on the fantastic.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.087660905
Library of Congress
PR149.F35 S36 2011, PR858, PR149.F35 S36 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
191 p. ;
Number of pages
191

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25177110M
ISBN 10
1409428621, 140942863X
ISBN 13
9781409428626, 9781409428633
LCCN
2011023637
OCLC/WorldCat
731009644, 952933607

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