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

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

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