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Friday, February 29, 2008

Notes on Victoria and Pre-Victorian Literature

Victoria Web
Essays on Philosophy

Ann Radcliffe and Charlotte Smith


"The present rage for gigantic and impossible horrors, which I cannot but consider as a symptom of morbid and vitiated taste, makes me almost doubt whether the simple pleasures afforded by natural objects will not appear vapid to the admirers of spectre novels and cavern adventure."
~ Charlotte Smith on writing in the 'new' Gothic style.