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Tobias Smollett and the work of writing
This essay offers an overview of the state of Smollett Studies today. It is also an argument about what makes Tobias Smollett interesting. It therefore seeks to avoid the value judgments about âEnglish literatureâ that have dogged Smollett's reputation (ever since âEnglish literatureâ was invented) and restore him to the âwork of writingâ in which he was engaged. The essay thus provides an account of the wideâranging nature of his work in order to balance a previous critical emphasis on his novels. It includes some views of his role as a translator, historian, critic, editor, and, perhaps more provocatively, âhack.â Recent studies in eighteenthâcentury print culture and the (Scottish) Enlightenment point the way to a new Smollett, at work within a messier history of writing
Gothic Revival Architecture Before Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill
The Gothic Revival is generally considered to have begun in eighteenth-century Britain with the construction of Horace Walpoleâs villa, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, in the late 1740s. As this chapter demonstrates, however, Strawberry Hill is in no way the first building, domestic or otherwise, to have recreated, even superficially, some aspect of the form and ornamental style of medieval architecture. Earlier architects who, albeit often combining it with Classicism, worked in the Gothic style include Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent and Batty Langley, aspects of whose works are explored here. While not an exhaustive survey of pre-1750 Gothic Revival design, the examples considered in this chapter reveal how seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Gothic emerged and evolved over the course of different architectsâ careers, and how, by the time that Walpole came to create his own Gothic âcastleâ, there was already in existence in Britain a sustained Gothic Revivalist tradition
"Chew You Up and Spit You Out" : Rewriting a Familiar Fixture of the Gothic Novel
De toute la faune familiĂšre du roman gothique, le vampire est sans doute la crĂ©ature la plus populaire, ultime avatar de la figure du scĂ©lĂ©rat qui domine le roman gothique anglais des origines. Cet accessoire ne pourrait exister hors de son environnement, objet de bien des changements depuis le chĂąteau dâOtrante. La demeure surnaturelle de Manfred subit maintes mĂ©tamorphoses pour connaĂźtre lâun de ses derniers avatars, domus edax, les maisons vampires de Graham Masterton (1998) Ă©difiĂ©es sur les lignes dâĂ©nergie reliant les sites druidiques en Angleterre.Durot-BoucĂ© Elizabeth. "Chew You Up and Spit You Out" : Rewriting a Familiar Fixture of the Gothic Novel. In: Anglophonia/Caliban, n°15, 2004. Les vestiges du gothique. Le rĂŽle du reste / The Remains of the Gothic. Persistence as Resistance. pp. 209-216
Le Lierre et la chauve-souris
Cet essai sur les origines du roman « gothique » anglais tente de cerner les phénomÚnes divers qui ont présidé à l'émergence de ce genre littéraire vers la fin du XVIIIe siÚcle en Angleterre. En examinant ses sources et en le remettant en situation, cet ouvrage entend redonner au gothique sa juste place dans l'histoire des idées, du goût et des lettres. L'étonnante vague de terreur qui déferle sur le roman anglais dans la seconde moitié du dix-huitiÚme siÚcle ne se comprend que dans le contex..
Humphry Clinker - Bibliographie
Boucé Paul-Gabriel. Humphry Clinker - Bibliographie. In: XVII-XVIII. Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siÚcles. N°35, 1992. pp. 31-38
Emily philosophe : Libertine and Gothic Novels as a Reappraisal of an Antiquated patriarchal System.
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Rebecca ou « le péril en la demeure »
Auffret-Boucé HélÚne. Rebecca ou « le péril en la demeure ». In: Caliban, n°33, 1996. Le GOTHIQUE et ses Métamorphoses. Mélanges en l'honneur de Maurice Lévy. pp. 93-100
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