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

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

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