The Tale of Terror - The Original Classic Edition
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference, Fiction & Literature
| Author: | Birkhead Edith | ISBN: | 9781486416554 |
| Publisher: | Emereo Publishing | Publication: | October 24, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Emereo Publishing | Language: | English |
| Author: | Birkhead Edith |
| ISBN: | 9781486416554 |
| Publisher: | Emereo Publishing |
| Publication: | October 24, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Emereo Publishing |
| Language: | English |
One of these is devoted to the Tale of Terror in America, where in the hands of Hawthorne and Poe its treatment became a fine art. In the chapters dealing with the more recent forms of the tale of terror and wonder, the scope of the subject becomes wider.
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition.
This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.
Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside:
The antiquity of the tale of terror; the element of fear in myths, heroic legends, ballads and folk-tales; terror in the romances of the middle ages, in Elizabethan times and in the seventeenth century; the credulity of the age of reason; the renascence of terror and wonder in poetry; the attempt to blend the marvellous of old story with the natural of modern novels.
...Scotts review of fashionable fiction in the Preface to Waverley; his early attempts at Gothic story in Thomas the Rhymer and The Lord of Ennerdale; his enthusiasm for Bürgers Lenore and for Lewiss ballads; his interest in demonology and witchcraft; his attitude to the supernatural; his hints to the writers of ghost-stories; his own experiments; Wandering Willies Tale, a masterpiece of supernatural horror; the use of the supernatural in the Waverley Novels; Scott, the supplanter of the novel of terror.
...Shelleys short tales; Polidoris Ernestus Berchtold, a domestic story with supernatural agency; The FACES Vampyre; later vampires; De Quinceys contributions to the tale of terror; Harrison Ainsworths attempt to revive romance; his early Gothic stories; Rookwood, an attempt to bring the Radcliffe romance up to date; terror in Ainsworths other novels; Marryats Phantom Ship; Bulwer Lyttons interest in the occult; Zanoni, and Lyttons theory of the Intelligences; The Haunted and the Haunters; A Strange Story and Lyttons preoccupation with mesmerism.
...The chapbook versions of the Gothic romance; the popularity of sensational story illustrated in Leigh Hunts Indicator; collections of short stories; various types of short story in periodicals; stories based on oral tradition; the humourists turn for the terrible; natural terror in tales from Blackwood and in Conrad; use of terror in Stevenson and Kipling; future possibilities of fear as a motive in short stories.
...The vogue of Gothic story in America; the novels of Charles Brockden Brown; his use of the explained supernatural; his Godwinian theory; his construction and style; Washington Irvings genial tales of terror; Hawthornes reticence and melancholy; suggestions for eery stories in his notebooks; Twice-Told Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse; The Scarlet Letter; Hawthornes sympathetic insight into character; The House of the Seven Gables, and the ancestral curse; his half-credulous treatment of the supernatural; unfinished stories; a contrast of Hawthornes methods with those of Edgar Allan Poe; A Manuscript found in a Bottle, the first of Poes tales of terror; the skill of Poe illustrated in Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Cash of Amontillado; Poes psychology; his technique in The Pit and the Pendulum and in his detective stories; his influence; the art of Poe; his ideal in writing a short story.
One of these is devoted to the Tale of Terror in America, where in the hands of Hawthorne and Poe its treatment became a fine art. In the chapters dealing with the more recent forms of the tale of terror and wonder, the scope of the subject becomes wider.
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition.
This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.
Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside:
The antiquity of the tale of terror; the element of fear in myths, heroic legends, ballads and folk-tales; terror in the romances of the middle ages, in Elizabethan times and in the seventeenth century; the credulity of the age of reason; the renascence of terror and wonder in poetry; the attempt to blend the marvellous of old story with the natural of modern novels.
...Scotts review of fashionable fiction in the Preface to Waverley; his early attempts at Gothic story in Thomas the Rhymer and The Lord of Ennerdale; his enthusiasm for Bürgers Lenore and for Lewiss ballads; his interest in demonology and witchcraft; his attitude to the supernatural; his hints to the writers of ghost-stories; his own experiments; Wandering Willies Tale, a masterpiece of supernatural horror; the use of the supernatural in the Waverley Novels; Scott, the supplanter of the novel of terror.
...Shelleys short tales; Polidoris Ernestus Berchtold, a domestic story with supernatural agency; The FACES Vampyre; later vampires; De Quinceys contributions to the tale of terror; Harrison Ainsworths attempt to revive romance; his early Gothic stories; Rookwood, an attempt to bring the Radcliffe romance up to date; terror in Ainsworths other novels; Marryats Phantom Ship; Bulwer Lyttons interest in the occult; Zanoni, and Lyttons theory of the Intelligences; The Haunted and the Haunters; A Strange Story and Lyttons preoccupation with mesmerism.
...The chapbook versions of the Gothic romance; the popularity of sensational story illustrated in Leigh Hunts Indicator; collections of short stories; various types of short story in periodicals; stories based on oral tradition; the humourists turn for the terrible; natural terror in tales from Blackwood and in Conrad; use of terror in Stevenson and Kipling; future possibilities of fear as a motive in short stories.
...The vogue of Gothic story in America; the novels of Charles Brockden Brown; his use of the explained supernatural; his Godwinian theory; his construction and style; Washington Irvings genial tales of terror; Hawthornes reticence and melancholy; suggestions for eery stories in his notebooks; Twice-Told Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse; The Scarlet Letter; Hawthornes sympathetic insight into character; The House of the Seven Gables, and the ancestral curse; his half-credulous treatment of the supernatural; unfinished stories; a contrast of Hawthornes methods with those of Edgar Allan Poe; A Manuscript found in a Bottle, the first of Poes tales of terror; the skill of Poe illustrated in Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Cash of Amontillado; Poes psychology; his technique in The Pit and the Pendulum and in his detective stories; his influence; the art of Poe; his ideal in writing a short story.
