Critical discourses of the fantastic, 1712-1831
By: David Sandner
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781409428626; 9781409428633
Subjects: English Fantasy literature; English literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: romanticism as the origin and end of the fantastic; title: The fairy way of writing; title: Interlocked definitions: the fantastic, the sublime, the uncanny; title: The sublime and the fantastic: Joseph Addison, Longinus, Edmund Burke; title: Romantic wildness and fantastic modernity in anti-apparition writings, the ballad; title: Controversy, and romance criticism; title: The fantastic and the fabulous past: Richard Hurd and James Beattie; title: Gothick pasts and gothick futures: Horace Walpole and Mary Shelley; title: "This wild strain of imagination": Samuel Johnson and John Hawkesworth on wonder; title: Fairy unexplained in Ann Radcliffe's the mysteries of Udolpho; title: Supernatural modernity in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet and James Hogg's The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner; title: The floating corpse of fairyland: William Wordsworth and Fable's dark abyss; title: On "two faults" in a "work of such pure imagination": Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Anna Letitia Barbauld on the rime of the ancient mariner; title: "Faery lands forlorn": John Keats' perilous realm of faery; title: Afterword: a typology of the fantastic: possession, fragmentation, dispossession and domestication; title: Appendix: a chronology of early critical sources on the fantastic.