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Title: The Tale of Terror
Author: Edith Birkhead
Release Date: November 26, 2004 [eBook #14154]
Language: English
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THE TALE OF TERROR
A Study of the Gothic Romance
by
EDITH BIRKHEAD M.A.
Assistant Lecturer in English Literature in the University of Bristol
Formerly Noble Fellow in the University of Liverpool
London
Constable & Company Ltd.
1921



PREFACE

The aim of this book is to give some account of the growth of
supernatural fiction in English literature, beginning with the
vogue of the Gothic Romance and Tale of Terror towards the close
of the eighteenth century. The origin and development of the
Gothic Romance are set forth in detail from the appearance of
Walpole's _Castle of Otranto_ in 1764 to the publication of
Maturin's _Melmoth the Wanderer_ in 1820; and the survey of this
phase of the novel is continued, in the later chapters, to modern
times.
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