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44. 哥特文学
1. Why there was a Gothic craze during the 1790s?
=> Literary history provides: it was originated from the French Revolution.
e.g. M.S. - the Gothic novels of R. and L. were the fruits of the revolutionary tremors felt by the Europe
- the horrors of the revolution pushed the writers to new extremes
=> W.H. - R.'s romances derived partly from the tottering state of old structures.
=> Reviewer's pun is referred (book and pages)
- Equating the Gothic with the French Revolution was not a retrospective phenomenon
- The reviewers knew the G terror derived from the B cult of the sublime (A.L.'s essay is referred)
2. R adopted the sublime to exlpoit fashipns and an attempt to pitch their work toward the high end of the literary market.
For: sublimity and terror were associated with tragedy and epic=> it's a strategy for WW.
By linking B's terror with Ro's, critics stripped the Gothic of its high literary pretensions.
3. One should be careful about overstating the case.
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