Gothic readings: the first wave, 1764-1840

Abstract

Part 1 Historical gothic: the castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole Sir Bertrand, John Aikin the old English Baron, Clara Reeve the recess, Sophia Lee Vathek, William Beckford. Part 2 Radcliffe and the school of terror: Velina de Guidova, Mary Ann Radcliffe the castle of Wolfenbach, Eliza Parsons the mysteries of Ann Radcliffe Camilla, Fanny Burney the fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe. Part 3 Lewis and the school of horror: Caleb Williams, William Godwin Frankenstein, Mary Shelley the vampyre, John Polodori Melmoth the wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin the adventure of the German student, Washington Irving. Part 4 Drama: the mysterious mother, Horace Walpole Fontainville forest, James Boaden Bertram, Charles Robert Maturin on German drama, Samuel Taylor Coleridge the vampire, James Robinson Planche the minstrel, James Beattie written on the seashore, Charlotte Smith Alonzo the brave and fair Imogine, M.G. Lewis song and ballad, Percy Bysshe Shelley Eugene, Anna Maria Porter. Part 5 Parody: Azemia, William Beckford Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen the heroine, Eaton Stannard Barrett. Part 6 Criticism: on the pleasures derived from ... terror, Al Aikin review of Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe review of Maturin's Fatal Revenge, Sir Walter Scott monk Lewis and his coterie, David Macbeth Moir readers' responses late 18th century early 19th century.