The Representation of the Wonderful and the Preternatural between the Gothic Novel and Fin-de-Siècle Literature

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Keywords Doyle • Gothic novel • Foley effects • Supernatural • Narrative • Form • Realism • The Castle of Otranto • Romance • Escapism • Street literature • Edmund Burke • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Robert Louis Stevenson • George Eliot • Supernatural Horror • Gothic Novel • Transatlantic literature • Vampire • Horace Walpole • Uncanny • Virginia Woolf • Deformed pigs • Mysticism • Olalla • Religious and political propaganda • Aesthetics • Aesthetic Culture • Fin de siècle • Elizabethan England • Psycho-acoustic ambience • Geopoetics • Islands • Stevenson • Ann Radcliffe • Victorian Era • Narrative Annexe • Wells • Monsters • Space • Empiricism • Ruyard Kipling • Ghost Story • The Sublime • The ‘Aesthetic Fantastic’ • Border-crossing • Late-Victorian Context • Henry James • Mimetic Dimension • Monstrous births • Spiritualism • Gothic • Hybridity • Joseph Conrad • The Mysteries of Udolpho • Marvellous • Fantastic • Genre

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2020/01 | Published Dec. 21, 2020 | Language en

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