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278 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

The female thermometer : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / Terry Castle.

McFarland classics

Images of fear : how horror stories helped shape modern culture, (1818-1918) / by Martin Tropp.

"A lady sitting on the right telling a story to three young women and two children, closely clustered around her, probably in consequence of the sensational character of the tale. ... Same dimensions as last [A school after Opie] to which this is a companion. ... It is probable that some of the figures in these compositions, which are fine specimens of the British school, are portraits of Opie's wife and her relatives." --Chaloner Smith, loc. cit.
Horace Walpole's gothick novel The castle of Otranto was first published in 1764. The phrase "A winter's tale" on the present print may allude to a tale of that type, rather than to Shakespeare's play The winter's tale

A lady telling a gripping story to young women and children. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1785, after J. Opie.

Gothic bodies : the politics of pain in romantic fiction / Steven Bruhm.

Gothic histories : the taste for terror, 1764 to the present / Clive Bloom.

Garland reference library of the humanities.

Garland reference library of the humanities

Rituals of dis-integration : romance and madness in the Victorian psychomythic tale / Edwin F. Block, Jr.

The father reads by candlelight. The mother holds a handkerchief. One of the daughters, overcome with emotion, holds her handkerchief to her eyes

1 drawing : pencil and brown wash ; sheet 28 x 36.2 cm

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The female thermometer : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / Terry Castle.

Images of fear : how horror stories helped shape modern culture, (1818-1918) / by Martin Tropp.

A lady telling a gripping story to young women and children. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1785, after J. Opie.

Gothic bodies : the politics of pain in romantic fiction / Steven Bruhm.

Gothic histories : the taste for terror, 1764 to the present / Clive Bloom.

Rituals of dis-integration : romance and madness in the Victorian psychomythic tale / Edwin F. Block, Jr.

A father reading a novel with an affecting plot to his wife and daughters. Drawing, ca. 1810 (?).

Montague Summers : a bibliographical portrait / [edited] by Frederick S. Frank.

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The female thermometer : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / Terry Castle.

Images of fear : how horror stories helped shape modern culture, (1818-1918) / by Martin Tropp.

A lady telling a gripping story to young women and children. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1785, after J. Opie.

Gothic bodies : the politics of pain in romantic fiction / Steven Bruhm.

Gothic histories : the taste for terror, 1764 to the present / Clive Bloom.

Rituals of dis-integration : romance and madness in the Victorian psychomythic tale / Edwin F. Block, Jr.

A father reading a novel with an affecting plot to his wife and daughters. Drawing, ca. 1810 (?).

Montague Summers : a bibliographical portrait / [edited] by Frederick S. Frank.

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