The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762–1800,9780521664585

The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762–1800

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ISBN13: 9780521664585
ISBN10: 0521664586
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-08-28
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

A genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment. This book questions the historical reasons for its growing popularity in the late eighteenth century. Beginning with the notorious case of the Cock Lane ghost, a performing poltergeist who became a major attraction in London in 1762, and with Garrick's spellbinding and paradigmatic performance as the ghost-seeing Hamlet, it moves on to look at the Gothic novels of Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, and others, in unexpected new lights, drawing out the connection between fictions of the supernatural and the growth of consumerism.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
xi
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1(12)
PART I TECHNIQUES OF GHOST-SEEING
The case of the Cock Lane ghost
13(20)
Producing enthusiastic terror
33(20)
PART II THE BUSINESS OF ROMANCE
The advantages of history
53(15)
Back to the future
68(12)
The value of the supernatural in a commercial society
80(15)
PART III THE STRANGE LUXURY OF ARTIFICIAL TERROR
Women, luxury and the sublime
95(11)
The supernatural explained
106(9)
Like a heroine
115(18)
PART IV MAGICO-POLITICAL TALES
The terrorist system
133(23)
Conspiracy, subversion, supernaturalism
156(16)
Afterword 172(3)
Notes 175(31)
Bibliography 206(12)
Index 218

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