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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 ...
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 25 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871–72), [1] [2] the story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Countess Mircalla Karnstein.
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 ...
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.
Ann Radcliffe. 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] Radcliffe was the most popular writer of ...
A decade later, Clara Reeve wrote The Old English Baron, the first "Gothic" novel to be penned by a woman, and in 1783 Sophia Lee produced The Recess, a story set in the time of Queen Elizabeth I. [10] These works prefigured much of the material and themes that Radcliffe would synthesise in her novels, most particularly ideas of the ...
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