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

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

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