The Dark Angel: Gothic Elements in Shelley's WorksBucknell University Press, 1975 - 199 sider By establishing a relationship between Shelley's works and the Gothic tradition, this study offers a new way of approaching the center of Shelley's thought. Consideration of Shelley's application of the Gothic mode as an agency for psychological analysis is preceded by a brief introduction to Gothic sensibility. |
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... possibilities because writers were dis- satisfied with the obvious and conventional limitations that society forced upon them . They attempted to go beyond the pedestrian world of human experience to achieve , through the use of terror ...
... possibilities because writers were dis- satisfied with the obvious and conventional limitations that society forced upon them . They attempted to go beyond the pedestrian world of human experience to achieve , through the use of terror ...
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... possibilities were well defined ; they clearly left room for Furies and demons , which needed only slight disguise to be contained within the proper rhetorical bounds . And the tension implicit in the technique of using such beings ...
... possibilities were well defined ; they clearly left room for Furies and demons , which needed only slight disguise to be contained within the proper rhetorical bounds . And the tension implicit in the technique of using such beings ...
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... possibilities , he denies their fruition by trying to unite with a dream . His " desperate hope " ( 291 ) is always accompanied by " a shadowy lure , / With doubtful smile mocking its own strange charms " ( 294-95 ) . From this line on ...
... possibilities , he denies their fruition by trying to unite with a dream . His " desperate hope " ( 291 ) is always accompanied by " a shadowy lure , / With doubtful smile mocking its own strange charms " ( 294-95 ) . From this line on ...
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Preface | 9 |
Shelleys Juvenilia | 25 |
Gothic Elements in Alastor | 65 |
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1817 LIBRARIES action Ahasuerus Alastor ambiguous appears atmosphere Beatrice Beatrice's beautiful becomes Carlos Baker Castle casuistry Cenci character characteristics complete Count curse motif dark death destruction drama dream dream-vision evil experience external fear Flame London forces ghosts Ginotti Gothic conventions Gothic elements Gothic hero-villain Gothic imagery Gothic mode Gothic novel Gothic quest Gothic sensibility Gothic tradition haunted hero horror human idea ideal imagery and personification images imagination indicates innocence interest Irvyne Laon London major poems mature mind moral murder mysterious narrator nature Orsino passage passions pattern Percy Bysshe Shelley phantom physical play PMLA poem's Poet's poetic political Prometheus Unbound psychological Queen Mab quest-curse Railo reader reality revenge Revolt of Islam Romantic Rousseau scene Shelley's early Shelley's Major Poetry soul spirit spirit of solitude supernatural terror theme thou thought tion tragedy tyranny UNIV veilèd maid Verezzi victim villain vision visionary Wandering Jew Wolfstein York Zastrozzi Zofloya