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100 1 $aClery, E. J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94031345
245 14 $aThe rise of supernatural fiction, 1762-1800 /$cE.J. Clery.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1995.
300 $axii, 222 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;$v12
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 206-217).
505 0 $aPt. I. Techniques of Ghost-Seeing. 1. The case of the Cock Lane ghost. 2. Producing enthusiastic terror -- Pt. II. The Business of Romance. 3. The advantages of history. 4. Back to the future. 5. The value of the supernatural in a commercial society -- Pt. III. The Strange Luxury of Artificial Terror. 6. Women, luxury and the sublime. 7. The supernatural explained. 8. Like a heroine -- Pt. IV. Magico-Political Tales. 9. The terrorist system. 10. Conspiracy, subversion, supernaturalism.
520 $aA genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment, but produced a string of bestsellers. E. J. Clery's original and historically sensitive account charts the troubled entry of the supernatural into fiction, and examines the reasons for its growing popularity in the late eighteenth century.
520 8 $aBeginning with the notorious case of the Cock Lane ghost, a performing poltergeist who became a major attraction in the London of 1762, and with Garrick's spell-binding 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 insight emerging from the rich resources of Clery's research 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.
520 8 $aIn providing a newly detailed context for the rise of supernatural fiction, Clery's work will change our view of its dramatic role - as much commercial as creative - in the movement from Enlightenment to Romanticism.
650 0 $aHorror tales, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105768
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103099
650 0 $aSupernatural in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85130633
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107030
650 0 $aLiterature publishing$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aGhost stories, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zGreat Britain.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105345
830 0 $aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;$v12.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92012333
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