The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800

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The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800

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A genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment, but produced a string of bestsellers. E. J. Clery's original and historically sensitive account charts the troubled entry of the supernatural into fiction, and examines the 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 the London of 1762, and with Garrick's spell-binding 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 insight emerging from the rich resources of Clery's research 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.

In providing a newly detailed context for the rise of supernatural fiction, Clery's work will change our view of its dramatic role - as much commercial as creative - in the movement from Enlightenment to Romanticism.

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English
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238

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Cover of: Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800
Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800
Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800
2009, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800
The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800
November 1, 1999, Cambridge University Press
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The rise of supernatural fiction, 1762-1800
1995, Cambridge University Press
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First Sentence

"In the second week of January 1762, an advertisement appeared in the London daily newspaper the Public Ledger reporting that a young lady had been lured to London, and then imprisoned and murdered by poisoning."

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Library of Congress
PR858.S85

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
238
Dimensions
9.1 x 6.7 x 1.2 inches
Weight
13.6 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7750899M
Internet Archive
risesupernatural00cler
ISBN 10
0521664586
ISBN 13
9780521664585
Library Thing
352530
Goodreads
730975

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In the second week of January 1762, an advertisement appeared in the London daily newspaper the Public Ledger reporting that a young lady had been lured to London, and then imprisoned and murdered by poisoning.
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