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

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

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

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