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The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators, and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Approaching key novels by Walpole ( The Castle of... read more
First Sentence
In 1799, a French natural philosopher, Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, in his account of his travels in Britain, reported a strange encounter in the Cabinet (scientific collection) of John Sheldon, a surgeon in London.
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- Markman Ellis (Author)
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