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This unique selection includes many rare or inaccessible books published between 1789 and 1914 and covers a wide range of subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature. It is not yet publicly available online, due to size issues - the whole collection comes to around 4TB, including page images and marked-up XML.
Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror or Gothic romanticism) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror fiction and romanticism Contents: Top
The "De Brailes Hours" in the British Library (Add MS 49999) [6] [7] is the earliest surviving separate English Book of hours (it has incorrectly been claimed to be the earliest anywhere, and the prototype of the form), [8] the type of book that was to become the leading vehicle for illumination in the late Middle Ages. It was probably created ...
Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist, a pioneer of Gothic fiction, and a minor poet.Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s. [1]
The collection is not to be confused with the Royal Collection of various types of art still owned by the Crown, nor the King's Library of printed books, mostly assembled by George III, and given to the nation by his son George IV, which is also in the British Library, as is the Royal Music Library, a collection mostly of scores and parts both ...
Nicholas Michael Groom FRSA (born 1966) is Professor of English Literature at the University of Macau, an author on subjects ranging from the history of the Union Jack, [1] [2] to Thomas Chatterton, [3] [4] has edited several books and regularly appears on television, radio and at literary festivals as an authority on English Literature, seasonal customs, J. R. R. Tolkien, the 'Gothic' and ...
One of the collections where a number of gothic bluebooks have been preserved is the Corvey Library. [3] Gothic bluebooks were descendants of the chapbook, trade in which had nearly disappeared by 1800. [4] They measured about three and a half to four inches wide and six to seven inches high. [2]