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

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

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

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