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Gothic bluebooks were usually either thirty-six or seventy-two pages long, selling for either sixpence or a shilling respectively. [2] It is from their price that they derived the nicknames, "Shilling Shockers" and "Sixpenny Shockers". While full-length gothic novels written by authors like Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, and Ann Radcliffe were ...
Ann Lemoine (born Ann Swires, fl. 1786 – 1820) was a British chapbook bookseller and publisher who specialized in Gothic Blue Books. She innovated the marketing and distribution of short Gothic tales. Her works were found in prominent circulating libraries. On 8 January 1786, [1] she married Henry Lemoine at St Luke Old Street.
In France, Gothic book illustration began around 1200, [ 4] almost four decades after the first early Gothic cathedrals were built. In England, this change in style began around 1220, [ 2] while in Germany, Romanesque forms persisted partially until about 1300. [ 5] The change of style in painting was always preceded by that in architecture.
Arianism. The Gothic Bible or Wulfila Bible is the Christian Bible in the Gothic language spoken by the Eastern Germanic (Gothic) tribes in the Early Middle Ages. [1] The translation was allegedly made by the Arian bishop and missionary Wulfila in the fourth century. In the late 2010s, scholarly opinion, based on analyzing the linguistic ...
The Codex Argenteus (Latin for "Silver Book/Codex") is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript, originally containing part of the 4th-century translation of the Christian Bible into the Gothic language. Traditionally ascribed to the Arian bishop Wulfila, it is now established that the Gothic translation was performed by several scholars, possibly ...
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apriltucholke.com. April Genevieve Tucholke (/ təˈhɒlki / tə-HOLL-kee[1]) is an American author based in Georgia. She is best known for her Gothic horror novel Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and its sequel Between the Spark and the Burn, as well as a dark young adult mystery novel Wink Poppy Midnight, all published by Penguin Books.
The aesthetics of the book have shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture. [ 1 ] Gothic fiction , sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting .