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interest for us here is in Mrs Behn's attempt to engraft verisimilitude on to a
conventional story of romance. Mrs Behn came to prose fiction from the heroic
drama, and in essence the story of Oroonoko is that of heroic drama, the story of
ill-fated ...
interest for us here is in Mrs Behn's attempt to engraft verisimilitude on to a
conventional story of romance. Mrs Behn came to prose fiction from the heroic
drama, and in essence the story of Oroonoko is that of heroic drama, the story of
ill-fated ...
Page 125
It seems to me quite certain that Hogg conceived his novel as satire; his own
point of view is made plain in the story Wringhim's servant tells him, by way of
warning, of the strange events that occurred in the village of Auchtermuchty,
whose ...
It seems to me quite certain that Hogg conceived his novel as satire; his own
point of view is made plain in the story Wringhim's servant tells him, by way of
warning, of the strange events that occurred in the village of Auchtermuchty,
whose ...
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But The House by the Churchyard is also a horror story, and the horror and the
comic extravaganza do not fuse at all. Le Fanu was expert in touching the nerve
that twitches to the fearful, as expert as anyone who has written. His effects of ...
But The House by the Churchyard is also a horror story, and the horror and the
comic extravaganza do not fuse at all. Le Fanu was expert in touching the nerve
that twitches to the fearful, as expert as anyone who has written. His effects of ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
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