The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762–1800
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19906493 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E J Clery (Sheffield Hallam University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Publication date | 1995-02-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511518997 |
| OpenAlex | W4229561417 |
| Open Library | OL34436901M |
| ISBN | 9780511518997 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
A genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment. This book charts the troubled entry of the supernatural into fiction, and 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. The central thesis concerns the connection between fictions of the supernatural and the growth of consumerism: not only are ghost stories successful commodities in the rapidly commercialising book market, they are also considered here as reflections on the disruptive effects of this socio-economic transformation
Art · Art history · Consumerism · Enlightenment · Literature · Political science · Popularity · Scottish Enlightenment · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis · 18th century · English fiction · English fiction, history and criticism · English Ghost stories · English Horror tales · English Horrortales · fantasy fiction · Fantasy fiction, history and criticism · Ghost stories, English · Gothic revival (Literature) · Great britain · History and criticism · Horror tales · Horror tales, English · Horror tales, history and criticism · Literature and society · Literature publishing · Littérature et société · Litterature frenetique · Recits d'horreur anglais · Roman anglais · Schauerroman · Supernatural in literature · Surnaturel dans la littérature
The Interplay of Dominant Empiricism and Residual Cartesianism in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780
The Cambridge History of the Gothic
The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature
The Anti-Jacobin Novel
More is different
Representation restructured
Dryden and the poetic career
Romanticism and poetic autonomy
In the Eye of the Monster
The Scarcities of Udolpho
The Suspension of Disbelief, Again
Saying Things
Gothic and the Generation of Ideas 1
Improvement and Repair
Ann Radcliffe and her doppelgängers
From Fantastic to Familiar
“More and More Fond of Reading”
Grant Allen’s Folk Horror Mediation of the Science and Spiritualist Debate
Do the Ghosts Roam Along the Corridors Here at Ordsall Hall?”
Original Memoirs of Apparitions & Spirits in Wales’ ( c .1738)
Cognition's warp
Millennial Capitalism
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2025 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |