Peter Fairclough Books
Oliver Twist
Oliver Tivist was a huge popular success. It was Dickens's second novel with recognizable antecedents in the Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama. But out of these elements the...
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Three Gothic Novels
By William Beckford, Mary Shelley, Peter Fairclough, Horace Walpole
Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Beckford's Vathek, and Shelley's FrankensteinThe Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense...
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