The Haunted Cavern

The Haunted Cavern

Author: John Palmer

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781379901167

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T073528 Summers, M. Gothic bibliography, p. 328: printed in late 1795. London: printed for B. Crosby, 1796 [1795]. [2], ii,248p.; 12°


The Haunted Cavern

The Haunted Cavern

Author: John Palmer

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9781939140623

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Young Eldred wants nothing more than to marry his beloved Jane. But Jane's father, the cruel Sir James Wallace, has other plans, intending to wed her to the fierce chieftain Donald instead. Donald, jealous of his rival, has Eldred seized and imprisoned in the dungeons of a haunted cavern, where a skeleton, a rusty dagger, and a mouldering manuscript will uncover long-hidden, deadly secrets and reveal the mysterious fate of Eldred's father, Lord Glencairn! "The Haunted Cavern" (1795) was the first novel by John Palmer, Jun. (1776-1809), who published it at age nineteen. A "tale of shrieking spectres and bloody murders" ("The Critical Review") featuring "gloomy caverns, dismal dungeons, ghastly skeletons, pale ghosts, fierce combats, [and] horrid murders" ("The Analytical Review"), Palmer's novel is an entertaining example of the type of Gothic fiction that flourished in the wake of Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794). This new edition, the first in almost two centuries, includes a new introduction by Joel T. Terranova, six contemporary reviews of the novel, a facsimile of the original title page, and a reproduction of the frontispiece from the scarce New York edition of 1796.


A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged)

A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged)

Author: Montague Summers

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-03-06

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 375048144X

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An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.


Gothic Readings

Gothic Readings

Author: Rictor Norton

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2005-04-01

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 9780826485854

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This is an anthology of Gothic Literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major practitioners and many of their followers, as well as contemporary reviews, private letters and diaries, chapbooks, and contemporary anecdotes about dramatic performances and the design of theatre sets. The selections provide representative samples of the major genres - historical gothic, the Radcliffe school of terror, the Lewis school of horror, tragic melodrama, comic parody, supernatural poetry and ballads, book reviews and literary criticism and anti-Gothic polemic.