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The Literature of Terror A HIS' RY OF GOTHIC FICTIONS ‘from 1765 to the present day David Punter VOLUME 1 THE GOTHIC TRADITION CHAPTER 2 The origins of Gothic fiction Sentimentalism, Graveyard Pat, The Sublime, Smollet, Horace Walpole, Clava Reco, Sophia Lee The eign of Gothic fon cannot be eparte from the on ithe novel form tele Aswe ae all now well aware the eighteenth seitSp ashe er the te athe noe There bah of come Screams rary oe pr shen oy, Some of then wel develope, pares he prone romance bit the works of Richardson and Fielding in the 1740s nevertheless acd an enero change in pre veing ~ special, the {Sandon fe fn in the mn of fea epcton of rcmporay Ie Ths satement wuld ect ch speation er comemed hore win attempting to Se gelieaion if we me : nee ne. pons 8 ee De find ibe ow ream wih eset in he wetingy of he mie Eighteenth cena riom ofcourse ins wae pire By Se SS tare of Defoe Where the romencewrtes of the shen tnd seenienth centres a chonen ares fiybic or finial seins, ces in lara eri (178) ad Tm oe (1739) cca inte mid of contemporary ne, ad were rete to he prcsin nation of connor Sy marin, Te quesion ofthe atom ewe Cote ad the {De othe noe in gener elated ost of ow nan pile Te Phew teary fom o emerge nh way and what aceon Suc msi cng he panorama of erry production. The panspal pot here ihe egheendncctury change in Engl oc reir and the sce development the feat ing public Whar te wer the midasemeenh ent al 20 iii ” The rigs of Gai ton usually perforce produced within the system of patronage and fr the benefit ofa elosed aristocratic cil, increasingly tke appear ance of a wading middle claw and the growth of urban conten fombined w produce other potential reader. Raymond Wilts hotes the growth inthe number of printingthowses in London, Irom slay atthe Restoration, to sesentyive in 1724, ad to beneen 150 and 200 by 1757: OF coure, the prininghouses were concerned with all Kinds of eilferent work, but an Wat's tenet figures on the appearance of works of fon show us that atleast or the 1740s on, tease inthis area would have been sgn factor in the growth of the houses “the annual preacion af works of Ficon’s he wits, “whieh hac averaged only about seven in the years between 1700 and 1740, sae to an average of about twenty Inthe thee decades fllening 174, and the output vas doubled ie the peviod from 1770 t9 18" Wat emphasises that theneguser re only approximate, Dut the growth i nonetheless olyiou and ‘he midle

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