Anthologies

Gothic Readings

The First Wave 1764—1840

Ed. Rictor Norton

London and New York: Leicester UP, 2000

Introduction

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1 Historical Gothic

1764 The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
1773 Sir Bertrand, a Fragment by John Aikin
1777 The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve
1785 The Recess by Sophia Lee
1786 Vathek by William Beckford
1790 Review of James White's John of Gaunt
1795 Mysteries Elucidated by Anna Maria Mackenzie
1796 The Haunted Cavern by John Palmer
1796 Hubert de Sevrac by Mary Robinson
1806 The Novice of Saint Dominick by Sydney Owenson

2 Radcliffe and the School of Terror

1790 Velina de Guidova by Mary Anne Radcliffe
1793 The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons
1794 The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
1793-7 Grasville Abbey George Moore
1796 Camilla by Fanny Burney
1796 The Children of the Abbey by Regina Maria Roche
1797 The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
1798 The Orphan of the Rhine by Eleanor Sleath
1798 Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
1803 Romance of the Pyrenees by Catherine Cuthbertson
1806 Secrets of the Castle by David Carey
1809 Manfroné by Mary Anne Radcliffe
1837 Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
1839 "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe

3 The "German" School of Horror

1794 The Necromancer translated by Peter Teuthold
1794 The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin
1796 The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
1797 Horrid Mysteries translated by Peter Will
1798 The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom
1802 Koenigsmark the Robber by Victor Jules Sarrett
1806 Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre
1808 The Midnight Groan (anon.)
1802 Tales of the Dead translated by Sarah Brown Utterson
1818 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
1819 The Vampyre by John Polidori
1820 Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
1824 "The Adventure of the German Student" by Washington Irving

4 Drama

1768 The Mysterious Mother by Horace Walpole
1783 Memoirs of Mrs Siddons by James Boaden
1794 Fontainville Forest by James Boaden
1796 The Castle Spectre by Matthew Gregory Lewis
1797 Review of Boaden's The Italian Monk
1800 "On the Absurdities of the Modern Stage" by "Academicus"
1800 "A Performance of Julia and Agnes" by Mary Russell Mitford
1802 De Monfort by Joanna Baillie
1816 Bertram by Charles Robert Maturin
1816 "On 'German' Drama" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1820 The Vampire by James Robinson Planché

5 Poetry

1771 The Minstrel by James Beattie
1784 "Written on the Seashore" by Charlotte Smith
1784 The Emigrants by Charlotte Smith
1787 "Invocation to Horror" by Hannah Cowley
1790 "Superstition: An Ode" by Ann Radcliffe
1791 "To the Visions of Fancy" by Ann Radcliffe
1791 "Night" by Ann Radcliffe
1798 "To the River Dove" by Ann Radcliffe
1798 "Ode to Superstition" by Nathan Drake
1796 "Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine" by Matthew Gregory Lewis
1800 "The Mad Monk" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1801 Tales of Terror by Matthew Gregory Lewis
1801 Review of Lewis's Tales of Wonder
1807 "Ballad" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
1810 "The Vampyre" by John Stagg
1849 "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe

6 Parody

1797 Azemia by William Beckford
1798 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
1799 "The Scribbler" by Mary Alcock
1804 "A Village Circulating Library" by Charles Dibdin
1810 "To Make a Novel" (anon.)
1810 The Age; A Poem (anon.)
1813 The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett

7 Theory and Criticism

1773 "On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror" by Anna Laetitia Aikin
1783 "Illustrations on Sublimity" by James Beattie
1794 The Banished Man by Charlotte Smith
1794 Review of Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho
1796 The Mysterious Warning by Eliza Parsons
1797 The Pursuits of Literature by Thomas James Mathias
1797 Review of Lewis's The Monk by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1797 "The Terrorist System of Novel-Writing" (anon.)
1797 "On the Titles of Modern Novels"
1798 "Vindication of The Monk" (anon.)
1801 Ancient Records by T.J. Horsley Curties
1802 "Novels and Romances" by "Rimelli"
1802 "On the Supernatural in Poetry" by Ann Radcliffe
1803 Flowers of Literature by Rev. F. Prevost and F. Blagdon
1810 Review of Maturin's Fatal Revenge by Sir Walter Scott
1810 Critique of Walpole's Castle of Otranto by Sir Walter Scott
1818 "The Preternatural in Works of Fiction" (anon.)
1819 "William Godwin's Novels" by William Hazlitt
1821 Review of Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer
1850 "Monk Lewis and His Coterie" by David Macbeth Moir

8 Readers' Responses

Late Eighteenth Century
     Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
     Maria Edgeworth
     Joseph Ritson
     Henry Francis Cary
     Anna Seward
     Thomas Green
     Mary Hartley
     Elizabeth Carter
Early Nineteenth Century
     Anna Laetitia Barbauld
     Samuel Taylor Coleridge
     Thomas Medwin
     Charles Knight
     Henry Crabb Robinson
     Mary Russell Mitford
     Charles Bucke
     William Makepeace Thackeray
     Cyrus Redding
     Charlotte Brontë

List of Plates

1 The staircase at Horace Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill (1774)
2 William Gilpin's watercolour of Furness Abbey (1786)
3 The Lady's Magazine for September 1795
4 Frontispiece to The Midnight Assassin (1797)
5 James Gillray's caricature of ladies rading Lewis's sensational novel The Monk (1818)
6 Frontispiece to The Midnight Groan (1808)
7 A toy theatre version of Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1841)
8 Frontispiece to Tales of Terror (1801)
9 Frontispiece to T.J. Jorsley Curties's Ancient Records (1801)

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